Quotes About Insight

Orice cunoa?tere este esen?ialmente identificare cu obiectul s?u.

mieux vaut, pour la renommée d'un philosophe, inventer une erreur nouvelle que de redire une vérité qui a déjà été exprimée par d'autres.

Thank you to all the people who have triggered my issues. You have helped me clarify what they are, start the healing process and ultimately become a better person.

The truth is not in the touch of a stone, but in what the stone tells you.

You can tell me everything, her eyes say, because I will see beauty in everything you say.

If you understand what makes him tick-what is magic for him- then you can understand anyone

Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense - no one needs more of it than one already has

Doubt is the origin of wisdom

Dubium sapientiae initium. ( Doubt is the origin of wisdom .)

At a recognizable point in the research process, looking at more sources does not provide more insight. When we have consulted enough material to identify patterns and developments, then … we have the mastery necessary to offer an interpretation of the past

We always need to listen for the untold story.

She shrugged. "I guess not, but at the same time, sometimes the best things are right in front of you.

Exhilaration is that feeling you get just after a great idea hits you, and just before you realize what's wrong with it.

Only the man that knows to little, knows too much." Nero Wolfe

Nothing is obvious in itself. Obviousness is subjective.

but I had long since learned from Wolfe that the corner the light doesn't reach is the one the dime rolled to.

Opinions, from experts, cost money.

I was sorry I had missed it because talk by those two is always worth hearing. You get good examples of how much a man can say in a few words and also of how little he can say in a lot of words.

I made a note to quit trying to understand women and start trying to understand men.

Measure your mind's height by the shade it casts, Robert Browning.

She gave me a little smile, the dimples coming, and said, 'We don't really know ourselves, do we?' 'It depends,' I said. 'Some of us know too much, and some not enough.

A tiger's eyes can't make light, Saul, they can only reflect it.

You are to act in the light of experience as guided by intelligence.

Orrie's strong point was getting people to tell him things. It wasn't so much the questions he asked. As a matter of fact, he wasn't very good at questions; it was just the way he looked at them. Something about him made people feel that he ought to be told things.