Quotes About Insight

Know thy own point: this kind, this due degree Of blindness, weakness, Heav'n bestows on thee.

Launch not beyond your depth, but be discreet, And mark that point where sense and dulness meet.

A perfect judge will read each work of wit With the same spirit that its author writ

Algunas personas nunca aprenden nada, porque todo lo comprenden demasiado pronto.

While, from the bounded level of our mind, Short views we take, nor see the lengths behind; But more advanced, behold, with strange surprise, New distant scenes of endless science rise!

A little learning is a dangerous thing; / Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.

Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.

I want to understand you, I study your obscure language.

I go into my library, and all history unrolls before me.

Die gefährlichste Weltanschauung ist die Weltanschauung derer, die die Welt nie angeschaut haben. (The most dangerous worldview is the worldview of those who have not viewed the world)

The most dangerous worldview is the worldview of those have not viewed the world.

Our imagination is struck only by what is great; but the lover of natural philosophy should reflect equally on little things.

It is far more difficult to observe correctly than most men imagine; to behold is not necessarily to observe, and the power of comparing and combining is only to be obtained by education. It is much to be regretted that habits of exact observation are not cultivated in our schools; to this deficiency may be traced much of the fallacious reasoning, the false philosophy which prevails.

Alexander Werth

He's so busy looking inside people to find the good that he misses the knife they're holding in their hand.

Successful journals break the deadlock of introspective obsession

A diary or journal isn't necessarily something that should be done daily so much as it is a clue to how to see the daily world around oneself differently.

El zekan?n bir aletidir yaln?zca. Zeka olmazsa hiçbir ?ey yap?lm?? olmaz.

Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy.

All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know.

When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.

We are all stupid. The smartest person is just a little less stupid than the rest of us.

what actually stood between the carrot and the stick was, of course, a jackass.

Had I been present at the creation, I would have given some useful hints for the better ordering of the universe.