Quotes About Insight

Ellijay, hadn't she known

Albert Einstein said that a problem cannot be solved with the same level of thinking that created it.

Every invalid is a doctor.

I always listen in on conversations — that always interests me. You never know what you might learn from it.

When we lack the will to see things as they really are, there is nothing so mystifying as the obvious.

I cannot draw a human figure if I don't know the order of his bones, muscles or tendons. Same is that I cannot draw a human face if I don't know what's going on his mind and heart. In order to paint life one must understand not only anatomy, but what people feel and think about the world they live in. The painter who knows his own craft and nothing else will turn out to be a very superficial artist.

I look at everything. God gave me eyes and I look at women and men and subway excavations and moving pictures and the little flowers of the field. I casually inspect the universe.

There is not a discovery in science, however revolutionary, however sparkling with insight, that does not arise out of what went before.

To be perfectly honest with you, I don't really see what the big deal is about getting to the Moon with the computers and the mid-course-corrections. I know you are a bunch of engineers, and you know better than I do, but I ask you ... once you get there beyond the atmosphere, do you or do you not see the Moon?

What is really amazing, and frustrating, is mankind's habit of refusing to see the obvious and inevitable until it is there, and then muttering about unforeseen catastrophes.

It is the obvious which is so difficult to see most of the time. People say 'It's as plain as the nose on your face.' But how much of the nose on your face can you see, unless someone holds a mirror up to you?

It is the obvious which is so difficult to see most of the time. People say 'It's as plain as the nose on your face.' But how much of the nose on your face can you see, unless someone holds a mirror up to you?

I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.

What did our dear Joseph manage to see in life? Bupkis is what.

Voi sapete tutto. Ma a che vi serve, se avete sempre gli occhiali sul naso e l'autunno nell'anima?

The waste basket is a writer's best friend.

There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I would say we only have learnt a very, very small part of what it can do.

The waste basket is the writer's best friend.

Night is a time of rigor, but also of mercy. There are truths which one can see only when it's dark

The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.

There is as much to be learned from a man with little, as there is from a man with much.

This is what I like about being a designer: You can't really get it until you see it.

If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention, than to any other talent.

If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.