Quotes About Insight

today as then I am a solitary, because I know things and must hint at things which other people do not know, and usually do not even want to know.6

As Chuang Tzu put it: "In the deep dark the person alone sees light."87

Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.15

one must experience and know."33

It offers neither facts nor power, but for lovers of self-knowledge, of wisdom—if there be such—it seems to be the right book.... Let it go forth into the world for the benefit of those who can discern its meaning.

2 A fool takes no pleasure in trying to understand; he only wants to express his own opinion.

He was "more passionate than most intelligent men, and more intelligent and reasoned than most passionate men.

true wisdom ... is the product of hard-won, often bitter experience.

Everyone else was trying to make things more complicated and Cronkite, typically, was trying to make them more simple.

They (the media) found little quality of depth to him, that when she said on the platform with that which he said to them in private. The qualities of introspection and reflectiveness that they particularly treasured were missing.

There was, I found, always more to learn.

It requires a certain kind of mind to see the beauty in a hamburger bun.

Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

We need to get behind the surface appearances if we are to act coherently in the world. Otherwise, acting in response to misleading surface signals typically produces disastrous outcomes.

The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment.

It's the very process of looking at something that makes it beautiful.

I believe that the very process of looking can make a thing beautiful.

Truth springs from argument amongst friends.

The advantages found in history seem to be of three kinds, as it amuses the fancy, as it improves the understanding, and as it strengthens virtue.

A man acquainted with history may, in some respect, be said to have lived from the beginning of the world, and to have been making continual additions to his stock of knowledge in every century.

Hume argued powerfully that human reason is fundamentally similar to that of the other animals, founded on instinct rather than quasi-divine insight into things.

It is impossible for us to think of any thing, which we have not antecedently felt, either by our external or internal senses.

A gift of truth is the gift of love.

It is never too late to apply good sense as a corrective to stupidity.