Quotes About Insight

The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.

I have sympathy for young people, for their growing pains, but I balk when these growing pains are pushed into the foreground, when you make these young people the only vehicles of life's wisdom.

All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination.

Each of us has a very rich nature and can look at things objectively, from a distance, and at the same time can have something more personal to say about them. I am trying to look at the world, and at myself, from many different points of view. I think many poets have this duality.

It turns out I was right. But nothing has come of it.

The real humility and loveliness of a Christian must be Christ Himself. Our love toward others must be Christ. Our patience, our humility, our wisdom, our knowledge, and our insight must be Christ.

Don't be fooled by your own wisdom

Rzecz prosta, im m?drzejszy czytelnik, tym i ksi??ka oka?e si? m?drzejsza; im za? czytelnik g?upszy i bardziej ja?owy, tym i ksi??ka b?dzie g?upsza.

You, oh mature ones, keep company solely with other mature ones, and your maturity is so mature that it can only chum up with maturity!

If you were to stare at this box of matches, you could extract entire worlds out of it. If you search for tastes in a book, you will certainly find them because it was said: seek and ye shall find. But a critic should not rifle, search. Let him sit back with folded arms, waiting for the book to find him. Talents should not be sought with a microscope, a talent should let people know about itself by striking at all the bells.

Rückwärts durch die Knie betrachtet war die Welt immer am interessantesten.

My great-grandfather used to say to his wife, my great-grandmother, who in turn told her daughter, my grandmother, who repeated it to her daughter, my mother, who used to remind her daughter, my own sister, that to talk well and eloquently was a very great art, but that an equally great one was to know the right moment to stop.

When I feel well and in a good humour, or when I am taking a drive or walking after a good meal, or in the night when I cannot sleep, thoughts crowd into my mind as easily as you could wish.

Es gibt kaum eine bessere Möglichkeit, einen Menschen wirklich kennen zu lernen, als ihn zu überraschen.

The method of political science is the interpretation of life its instrument is insight, a nice understanding of subtle, unformulated conditions.

I would never read a book if it were possible for me to talk half an hour with the man who wrote it.

You devour a book meant to be read, not because you would fill yourself or have an anxious care to be nourished, but because it contains such stuff

Hey listen -- I've proved a lot of things. That's how I pay my rent. Theories and little observations. A puckish remark now and then. Occasional maxims. It beats picking olives, but let's not get carried away.

Nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind.

The master sees beyond what is obvious. He sees the unseen, feels the unfelt, and hears the unheard. He looks below the surface for what is hidden and so finds the great heartbeat of the Universe. He smiles, knowing it is his heartbeat, your heartbeat, our heartbeat.

To leap over the wall of self, to look through another's eyes--this is valuable experience, which literature offers.

One may as well go, as look into another man's house; because the eye may reach what the hand cannot.

Go away, you give philosophy nothing to catch hold of.

It takes a wise man to recognize a wise man.