Quotes About Insight

Every great idea is on the verge of being stupid.

All great truths begin as blasphemies.

A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things but cannot receive great ones.

All great experience has a guarded entrance and a windowless facade.

A good idea will keep you awake during the morning, but a great idea will keep you awake during the night.

The more pictures you see, the better you are as a photographer.

To a great mind, nothing is little,' remarked Holmes, sententiously.

A picture does a great job, but it's not nearly like being there.

Clever men are impressed in their differences from their fellows. Wise men are conscious of their resemblance to them.

Great men never require experience.

All great ideas start as weird ideas. What now seems obvious, early on, is not obvious to anybody.

Frustration is one of the great things in art. Satisfaction is nothing.

To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.

Great knowledge sees all in one. Small knowledge breaks down into the many.

We learn of great things by little experiences.

The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.

It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.

Experience is a great teacher.

Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.

A great scholar is seldom a great philosopher.

Great literature, if we read it well, opens us up to the world and makes us more sensitive to it, as if we acquired eyes that could see through things and ears that could hear smaller sounds.

The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.

Read less and think more. Read about great things and think about great questions and issues.

The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.