Quotes About Insight

If you are alive on this planet, you are a counselor! You are interpreting life, and sharing those interpretations with others. You are a person of influence, and you are also being influenced.

We were meant to see more than our physical eyes can see,

Microbe hunting is a story of amazing stupidities, fine intuitions, insane paradoxes.

Als je Proust gelezen hebt, is je leven veranderd.

It seems that if one is working from the point of view of getting beauty in one's equations, and if one has really a sound insight, one is on a sure line of progress.

You can also trust your own experiences more than your projections.

Perception begins with what is experienced, rather than beginning with what is expected; the model is to "see and understand" rather than "understand and see.

Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise.

St. Thomas Aquinas said it neatly and powerfully centuries ago: "Things known are in the knower according to the mode of the knower.

And this power in their teaching had to do, first of all, with the content of what they taught – that is, with the way "what they said" made clear "what really is.

The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory.

Para ver cierro los ojos

I shut my eyes in order to see.

We never really know what stupidity is until we have experimented on ourselves.

Shut your eyes in order to see.

Rhetoric and dialectics can't change what I have learned from observation and experience.

Only by understanding the past may we free ourselves from its tyranny.

Hypocrites,' replied Cale, 'I've come across a lot of them recently. I mean by that I understand now how many of them there are.

Even for the very clever it can be like breaking bones to stand back from something that's been in front of you all your life.

Whatever discoveries have been made in the land of self-delusion, many undiscovered regions remain to be explored.

Only inferior minds speak or write in order to discover what they think.

I know everything I know about.

My God, Cale, if you only knew with what little sense the world is run. There has been no disaster visited on mankind that was not warned of by someone— never, not in all the history of the world. And no one who ever gave such warnings and was proved right ever got any good out of it.

French mathematician Jacques Hadamard (1865–1963): "The shortest path between two truths in the real domain passes through the complex domain." I