Quotes About Insight

There's no classes in elementary school, high school or college that teach people situational awareness.

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Confusion is that wonderful state right before clarity.

It's extraordinary how we go through life with eyes half shut, with dull ears, with dormant thoughts. Perhaps it's just as well; and it may be that it is this very dullness that makes life to the incalculable majority so supportable and so welcome. Nevertheless, there can be but few of us who had never known one of these rare moments of awakening when we see, hear, understand ever so much - everything - in a flash - before we fall back again into our agreeable somnolence.

We see so much that we in fact see nothing, and we know so much that we no longer possess anything that is our own, that is to say, something we could not have learned, something that arises out of the virtues and errors of our own self.

Foresight is a virtue and averts many a misfortune.

Temporis filia veritas; cui me obstetricari non pudet . Truth is the daughter of time, and I feel no shame in being her midwife.

Discover the force of the skies O Men: once recognised it can be put to use.

Nineteen twentieths of [mankind is] opaque and unenlightened. Intimacy with most people will make you acquainted with vices and errors and follies enough to make you despise them.

Imagination need not stand as an obstacle to clear-sighted perception; on the contrary, it can be a prerequisite for recognition of the less obvious aspects of what is really there.

Friendship with children is fundamental for seeing everything you want to see in them.

If I know your closest friends, I can accurately predict your future.

Friendship with children exposes the nature of parents.

Writing is, among things, the place where we can help ourselves cope with the dark parts of our living

Thoughts disentangle themselves when they pass through the lips to the fingertips. If

It seems to me a work of art is the evidence offered by a fantastically observant witness

This is the only way another creature can be known: on the surface, that's where there is depth.

The world is always ready to be amazed, but the self, that lynx-eyed monitor, sees all the subterfuges, all the cut corners, and is not deceived.

This is the only way another creature can be known: on the surface, that's where there is depth.

Oh, Ma, how little I understood you, thinking how little you understood.

Å»aden szczegóÅ' ludzkiego oblicza nie zniesie dÅ'u?szej obserwacji.

Auden wrote somewhere that no matter what the age of the company, he was always convinced he was the youngest in the room; me, too.

remember that there's always another way of seeing things: that's the beginning of wisdom.

That clever folk care less for what ye think than why ye think it.