Quotes About Insight

We learn not in the school, but in life.

Even the serenity he felt was something that needed to be understood; it seemed a symptom of a deeper and more complete understanding that lay yet beyond him.

So far as it goes, a small thing may give analogy of great things, and show the tracks of knowledge.

Truths kindle light for truths.

Thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent and revealed them unto babes." St. Matthew 11:25.

I want it to be a useful hour that someone comes away from feeling like it's been worthwhile. If I let them use up all the time with something that isn't moving them towards where they want to be, then I'm not doing my job. Repeating back what someone has said not only helps me to check I've understood it correctly, but also can help to get my voice in, and then move from hearing what someone has said to building on it and offering new ideas.

Travel is the only context in which some people ever look around. If we spent half the energy looking at our own neighborhoods, we'd probably learn twice as much.

happy those who learn wisdom at another's expense!

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth.

We know the man by the object[.] Even the moon, the sun, stars, … [t]hat he sees them is an evidence of his own nature.

History cannot teach us any general rule, principle, or law. There is no means to abstract from a historical experience a posteriori any theories or theorems concerning human conduct and policies. The

What counts is not the data, but the mind that deals with them. The data that Galileo, Newton, Ricardo, Menger, and Freud made use of for their great discoveries lay at the disposal of every one of their contemporaries and of untold previous generations. Galileo was certainly not the first to observe the swinging motion of the chandelier in the cathedral at Pisa.

It is easy indeed to display foresight after the event. In retrospect all fools become wise.

Don't get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole single great problem, even if this view is still not a clear one.

What is your aim in philosophy?---To shew the fly the way out of the fly-bottle.

A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.

A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push.

How small a thought it takes to fill a life.

If you want to understand something, you first need to accept the fact of your own ignorance.

I may not have a degree, but I certainly got an education.

Eli had learned long ago that you can stare right at something and not see what lies beneath the surface.

Inside was my father's wallet, his reading glasses, his wedding ring. Identity, insight, heart: the only things we leave behind.

There had to have been a moment where they made a conscious decision to turn away before they saw something they didn't want to.