Quotes About Insight

It is not that I'm so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer.

The man of science is a poor philosopher.

When I study philosophical works I feel I am swallowing something which I don't have in my mouth.

Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything one learned in school.

Something deeper had to be hidden behind things.

The horizon of many people is a circle with a radius of zero. They call this their point of view.

A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.

Any fool can know. The point is to understand.

Never underestimate your own ignorance.

People got insights into what was bothering them, but they hardly did a damn thing to change.

To be a character who feels a deep emotion, one must go into the memory's vault and mix in a sad memory from one's own life.

To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant. —AMOS BRONSON ALCOTT.

It is no longer real, but just an illusion that I make real for my own amusement. To know the self we must make the mountains move. All we need is just an insight; not much, just a flash, a moment in which no reflection occurs. These moments go on all the time, and all the time we close up against them. We close up against a loss of self, we react, we clench, we adopt one or other strategy.

An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight... The truly wise person is color- blind.

As we acquire more knowldege, things do not become more comprehensible, but more mysterious.

As we acquire knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible, but more mysterious.

As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible, but more mysterious.

A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.

Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen, and thinking what nobody else has thought.

Discovery consists in seeing what everyone else has seen and thinking what no one else has thought.

Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else and thinking something different

Science is to see what everyone else has seen but think what no one else has thought.

His bread incident was just like my own story of getting run over. I didn't get hurt, exactly, though I did get to see the underside of something I thought I knew but I didn't. My father and I, in our turn, got to see something new in the middle of what was absolutely familiar, which is the hardest place to see it. Neither of us ever forgot.

I'm glad I see with my eyes and not the pages I've read.