Quotes About Insight

Quiet mouth, bright mind.

She cocked her head slightly as though listening to a voice only she could hear.

Watch men and women, her mother had said, put yourself inside them. Imagine what they're thinking.

The world sharpened suddenly, as brilliant and bright as when she got rain in her eye.

Now his knowledge was her knowledge.

I was hungry for another viewpoint, to see Julia for the first time.

Watch women and men, put yourself inside them. Imagine what they're thinking.

It was obvious." "Maybe to you.

It was only now that she understood, for the first time, that despite her title, her uniform, and the two stars on her shoulder, she was as helpless as any native herder or farmer or sailor.

Everything that makes man feel that mystery envelops him makes him more intelligent.

In unremarkable texts we soon trip on phrases that penetrate into us, as if a sword has thrust up to its hilt inside us.

De statistiek is het werktuig van wie afziet van het begrijpen om te kunnen manipuleren.

Only the defeated come to possess sound ideas about the nature of things.

Making us feel intelligent is how nature notifies us that we are saying something stupid.

Quienes gimen sobre la estrechez del medio en que viven pretenden que los acontecimientos, los vecinos, los paisajes, les den la sensibilidad y la inteligencia que la naturaleza les negó.

Adults? Maybe there were only two: Thucydides and Burckhardt.

Istruire non è indicare soluzioni, ma rivelare problemi.

That the French Revolution was essentially a religious phenomenon was only seen with clarity by Joseph de Maistre and Michelet.

Observing life is too interesting to waste time living it.

Photography shows us how the imbecile views the world.

Genuine thought only discovers its principles at the end.

A clear and quiet heart-mind allows the deep insight necessary to connect with that true divine essence within us.

Sometimes a fool makes a good suggestion.

The wisest man is generally he who thinks himself the least so.