Quotes About Insight

Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.

No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.

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

If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.

I have studied these things - you have not.

If others would think as hard as I did, then they would get similar results.

As a blind man has no idea of colors, so have we no idea of the manner by which the all-wise God perceives and understands all things

What we know is a drop. What we don't know is an ocean.

I keep the subject constantly before me, and wait 'till the first dawnings open slowly, by little and little, into a full and clear light. [Reply upon being asked how he made his discoveries]

Wenn ich weiter als andere gesehen habe, dann nur deshalb, weil ich auf der Schulter von Giganten stand.

One cannot simply perceive everything, to be able to perceive everything would be to tedious

Do not hover always on the surface of things, nor take up suddenly, with mere appearances; but penetrate into the depth of matters, as far as your time and circumstances allow, especially in those things which relate to your profession.

The longer I live, the more uninformed I feel. Only the young have an explanation for everything.

Words are not that important when you recognize intentions.

you can tell the deepest truths with the lies of fiction

Perception without judgment is spineless; judgment with no perception is blind. Introversion lacking any extraversion is impractical; extraversion with no introversion is superficial.

Problems arise for the introverts because they often do not look closely enough at the outer situation and, therefore, do not really see it. The extraverts often do not stop looking at the specific situation long enough to see the underlying idea.

Most people see only the side introverts present to the outer world, which is mostly their auxiliary process, their second best.

Intuitives tend to define intelligence as "quickness of understanding" and so prejudge the case in their own favor, for intuition is very quick.

Whereas the intuitive children like to learn by insight, the sensing children prefer to learn by familiarization.

I study life by being close to it, this "native life" about which so little is known, and which is so disfigured by the descriptions of those who, not knowing it, insist on describing it anyway.

What one has not experienced one will never understand in print.

The more we know about the past, the more we know what is not true about the present

No author who has ever lived has shown such powers of insight into the variety of life - the differences, the contrasts, the collisions of persons and things and situations, each apprehended in its absolute uniqueness and conveyed with a degree of directness and a precision of concrete imagery to be found in no other writer