Quotes About Insight

not to be learned; for all knowledge appears

Knowledge, do you say it is power? yes most mighty of all powers.

There neither is nor ever will be a treatise of mine on the subject. For it does not admit of exposition like other branches of knowledge; but after much converse about the matter itself and a life lived together, suddenly a light, as it were, is kindled in one soul by a flame that leaps to it from another, and thereafter sustains itself.

Los que gustan de contemplar la verdad

Não é possível dar a outrem o que não se tem, bem como não é possível ensinar o que não se sabe.

No estoy distante de definir la sabiduría como el conocimiento de sí mismo, y de hecho soy de la misma opinión del que colocó en el templo de Delfos una inscripción de este género: «Conócete a ti mismo».

de dos hombres que caminan juntos, el uno ve lo que el otro no ve».[27]

Yo he alcanzado este popular renombre por una cierta clase de sabiduría que poseo. ¿De qué sabiduría se trata? Ciertamente, de una sabiduría propia de los humanos. Y en ella es posible que yo sea sabio

I think it's too much to call to call him wise, Phaedrus: only the gods deserve that label. But it would suit him better and be more appropriate to call him a lover of wisdom, or something like that.

we become what we contemplate.

You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.

So I appear to be wiser, at least than him, in just this one small respect: that when I don't know things, I don't think that I do either.

La vista del entendimiento, ten por cierto, empieza a ver adecuadamente cuando la de los ojos comienza a perder su fuerza, y tú todavía estás lejos de eso.

We must close our eyes and invoke a new manner of seeing...a wakefulness that is the birthright of us all, though few put it to use.

Knowledge has three degrees--opinion, science, illumination. The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, logic; of the third, insight.

I read my eyes out and can't read half enough.... The more one reads the more one sees we have to read.

Tocqueville delivered his dispassionate and penetrating judgment of the American experiment in his great work Democracy in America. No one, before or since, has written about the United States with such insight.

does not ingenuity consist in the finding or creating of connections between apparently extraneous orders of ideas?)

Se comprendere è impossibile, conoscere è necessario.

What do you take me for? Do you think I was born yesterday? Do you think I have never dealt in eggs?

If understanding is impossible, knowing is imperative, because what happened could happen again.

It's the concert of knowledge and ignorance that underwrites our decisions.

For what was a book if not a long consecutive surrender to the movements of another's soul?

To be a teacher was to be a student anew, to relive the intoxication of insight, and to be a prophet, to sketch the world down to its very foundation—not simply to tease sight from blindness, but to demand that another see.