Quotes About Insight

Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

He wins every hand who mingles profit with pleasure, by delighting and instructing the reader at the same time.

Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.

Mingle some brief folly with your wisdom.

Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.

By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses one misses more nonsense than sense.

Serendipity… you will understand it better by the derivation than by the definition. I once read a silly fairy tale, called The Three Princes of Serendip: as their highnesses traveled, they were always making discoveries, by accidents and sagacity, of things they were not in quest of…. Now do you understand serendipity?

Prognostics do not always prove prophecies—at least the wisest prophets make sure of the event first.

Mr. [Thomas] Gray the poet has often observed to me that if a man were to form a Book of what he had seen and heard himself it must in whatever hands prove a most useful and entertaining one.

In science, mistakes always precede the truth.

A bystander often sees more of the game than those that play

I hold visions to be wisdom, and would deny them only to ambition, which exists only by the destruction of visions of everybody else

It doesn't make any sense, does it?" "Some things don't," said the beetle, gloomily. "Don't be so sure," Aubrey said. "Everything makes sense if you can find the right way to look at it. What we need is a new perspective.

Adev?rata filosofie nu confer? putere asupra lumii, ci ofer? solu?ia dep??irii ei.

Experience is retrospect knowledge.

Do not correct a fool, or he will hate you. Correct a wise man and he will appreciate you ! Hovsep Kazezian - www.Hkazezian.com

You don't have to be crazy to act crazy. You just have to know what crazy people act like. And I had plenty of experience watching crazy people.

He knows everything but he lacks inexperience.

Extraordinary individuals stand out in the extent to which they reflect—often explicitly—on the events of their lives, large as well as small.

But what is the imagination for if not tto grasp how the world feels to those who don't think what you think?

But you don't always have to ask to know.

People who see what's coming have faulty chronology, that is all.

Both books are fun to read, and you learn a lot whichever view you adopt. J. David Archibald's Dinosaur Extinction and the End of an Era (New York: Columbia University Press, 1996)

As I have heard it put, a critical thinker is good at distinguishing gold from bullshit