Quotes About Insight

They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.

Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much. Wisdom is humble that he knows not more.

Knowledge dwells in heads replete with thoughts of other men; wisdom in minds attentive to their own.

Typerien edelläkävijoiden seuraaminen ja molempien silmien ummistaminen on helpompaa kuin ajatteleminen.

the famous remark of Hegel that 'the owl of Minerva takes flight at dusk'"—Hegel's view that wisdom comes only in hindsight.

Change starts when someone sees the next step.

The greatest ownership of all is to glance around and understand.

If you don't know the kind of person I am and I don't know the kind of person you are a pattern that others made may prevail in the world and following the wrong god home we may miss our star.

A man might pass for insane who should see things as they are.

Every man is a volume, if you know how to read him.

One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.

We always admire the other person more after we've tried to do his job.

Books open your mind, broaden your mind, and strengthen you as nothing else can

Is it for the cultivated man, the man of broad and general views, to throw himself without reserve and with all his weight, into what, for aught he yet knows, may be only a cross-current and eddy, instead of the main stream of truth?

Fiction becomes visual by becoming verbal

He who thinks all mankind is vile is a pessimist who mistakes his introspection for observation; he looks into his own heart and thinks he sees the world.

We see in order to move; we move in order to see.

Philosophy is for the few.

You can acquire a lot of knowledge without ever going to school.

There must be room for the imagination to exercise its powers we must conceive and apprehend a thousand things which we do not actually witness.

The greatest ideas are the simplest.

The single most important fact, perhaps, of the entire movie industry: NOBODY KNOWS ANYTHING.

He that loves reading has everything within his reach.

I don't have any wonderful insights that other people don't have. I just have slightly more consistently than others avoided idiocy. Other people are trying to be smart. All I'm trying to be is non-idiotic. I find that all you have to do to get ahead in life is to be non-idiotic and live a long time. It's harder to be non-idiotic than most people think.