Quotes About Insight

A pigs and pain, until you really get to know 'em. Then he's a paid with the soul.

Surely only correct understanding could lead to correct action.

When you actually know the question, the answer is every­where, and you can see it in anything you observe.

The highest exercise of imagination is not to devise what has no existence, but rather to perceive what really exists, though unseen by the outward eye--not creation, but insight.

But maybe the best way to describe Votto is that he's baseball's most cerebral hitter, the Einstein of the batter's box.

No matter what happens, there's always somebody who knew it would

You have always been smart. You have always looked for the worst in people, and have been quick to notice when people are up to no good... But in the case of your children, you are blind.

Old women can see through walls.

History is not only a particular branch of knowledge, but a particular mode and method of knowledge in other branches.

Be not content with the best book; seek sidelights from the others.

There are truths so prosaic, so dense, so dull, that one can hardly state them without suggesting the idea of something subtler or more interesting beyond.

Learn as much by writing as by reading.

Pythagoras, Locke, Socrates -- but pages might be filled up, as vainly as before, with the sad usage of all sorts of sages, who in his life-time, each was deemed a bore! The loftiest minds outrun their tardy ages.

While common men grow ignorantly old, The lawyer's brief is like the surgeon's knife, Dissecting the whole inside of a question, And with it all the process of digestion.

Adversity is the first path to truth.

Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them.

Ridicule is the best test of truth.

Common sense (which, in truth, is very uncommon) is the best sense I know of: abide by it; it will counsel you best.

In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining thou hast attained it - thou art a fool.

Common sense is the best sense I know of

Science at best is not wisdom it is knowledge. Wisdom is knowledge tempered with judgment.

From the very first country I visited, I knew I was not on this trip just for sightseeing. I did enjoy all the new experiences, but I had a strange certainty that I was being guided toward something I could not yet see.

What did I think of him? I, who'd worked with him hand-in-glove longer than all the rest, and who knew him better than anyone -- including Mrs. Blackthorne? He was a first-class son of a bitch. But how many men have you known who were first in their class at anything?

its own stability, however, it may well be that man himself is slowly achieving powers over a new dimension—a dimension capable of presenting him with a wisdom he has barely