Quotes About Insight

But it was better to know of it than to see it in its daily monotony.

Share your knowledge. It's a way to achieve immortality.

understanding the facts is more important than knowing the facts. But

Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.

Be wiser than other people if you can; but do not tell them so.

Knowledge isn't power until it is applied.

Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.

I have a secret. And everyone knows it but me.

Since God has left the fingerprints of his wisdom everywhere, since there is no place where God does not furnish us with raw materials for godly thinking, Christians should be seized with a rambunctious curiosity to ponder his works, both the majestic and the mundane. The task of wisdom is joyfully to describe and investigate all God's works. We may not be Solomons in insight, but we can gratefully examine the same data.

Some of the best lessons are learned from past mistakes, the error of the past is the wisdom of the future.

Facts are the enemy of truth.

Antes que comece a fazer perguntas e a abrir portas que ficariam melhor se permanecessem fechadas, talvez deva pensar que talvez não goste muito do que acabará descobrindo.

What is truly profound is thought to be stupid and trivial, or worse, boring, while what is actually stupid and trivial is thought to be profound. That is what it means to fly upside down.

I hope to turn my reader into the quiet person in the corner who, even when no one is telling them anything, sees everything.

Faith is nothing more than a watered-down attempt to accept someone else's insight as your own. Belief is the psychic equivalent of an article of second-hand clothing, worn out and passed down.

Sometimes I think the biggest challenge in life is overcoming the urge to recoil in horror when you see blackness that lies slightly beneath the skin of the world.

Who would have thought you could see the future by reading a book about the past?

Other people visualize by means of intuition or a vague sense of simply knowing something. It's

I equate true spiritual insight with wisdom, which is different from knowledge. Knowledge can be obtained through many sources: books, stories, songs, legends, myths, and, in modern times, computers and television programs. On the other hand, there's only one real source of wisdom—pain. Any experience that provides a person with wisdom will also usually provide them with a scar. The greater the pain, the greater the realization. Faith is spiritual rigor mortis.

Teachings not validated by personal experience are of little value.

It also comes as a surprise that the term was invented not to talk about altruism or acts of kindness, but to explain how we can enjoy a sonata or a sunset. Empathy, for Vischer, was creative seeing, reshaping the world so as to find ourselves reflected in it. In

He laughs with wise, percolated mirth

We are here for knowledge. Our enemy is thoughtlessness. This is philosophy.

A person who asks questions can get a reputation such as a person who wishes to find things out.