Quotes About Insight

But you can't stop knowing something, can you?

Well, you can fairly claim the day hasn't been wasted,' owned Cadfael generously, 'if something's been learned.

enough to excite the artist in any man.

The key to surviving and thriving in leadership often rests in increasing our self-awareness.

In a very real sense, the writer writes in order to teach himself, to understand himself; the publishing of his ideas, though it brings gratifications, is a curious anticlimax.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

Common sense is genius in homespun.

Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination.

Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.

It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious.

Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.

Almost all really new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced.

Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance is the death of knowledge.

It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.

the only simplicity to be trusted is the simplicity to be found on the far side of complexity.

Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.

Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct from ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.

Wisdom is the fruit of a balanced development.

Rationalism is an adventure in the clarification of thought.

Philosophers can never hope finally to formulate these metaphysical first principles. Weakness of insight and deficiencies of language stand in the way inexorably. Words and phrases must be stretched towards a generality foreign to their ordinary usage; and however such elements of language be stabilized as technicalities, they remain metaphors mutely appealing for an imaginative leap.

The true method of discovery is like the flight of an aeroplane. It starts from the ground of particular observation; it makes a flight in the thin air of imaginative generalization; and it again lands for renewed observation rendered acute by rational interpretation.

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Everything of importance has already been seen by someone who did not discover it.

That knowledge which adds greatness to character is knowledge so handled as to transform every phase of immediate experience.