Quotes About Insight

Truth is born into this world only with pangs and tribulations, and every fresh truth is received unwillingly.

Learn all you can from the mistakes of others. You won't have time to make them all yourself

Impara tutto ciò che ti è possibile dagli errori degli altri. Non avrai tempo a sufficienza per farli tutti.

The artist does not see things as they are, but as he is.

The "silly" question is the first intimation of some totally new development

To trace the unfamiliar to the familiar ... is to understand.

the majority of people go past the doors that are half ajar, thinking them closed, and fail to notice the faint stirrings of the great curtain that hangs ever in the form of appearances between them and the world of causes behind.

By which I mean that he saw in commonplace events the movement of greater tides than others saw.

It was so easy to be wise in the explanation of an experience one has not personally witnessed. ("The Wendigo")

The impulse came to her clairvoyantly, and she obeyed without a sign of hesitation. Deeper comprehension would come to her of the whole awful puzzle. And come it did, yet not in the way she imagined and expected.

Silence is one of the gates to wisdom.

An alert and learned man will take advice from any event.

There is no capital more useful than intellect and wisdom, and there is no indigence more injurious than ignorance and unawareness.

Recitation of the Qur'an without contemplation and thought is futile.

Associating with the wise and the knowledgeable people adds to the prestige of a person.

Not every man with a heart is understanding, nor every man with an ear a listener, and nor every man with eyes able to see.

The heart of a fool is in his mouth while the tongue of the wise man is in his heart

And which comes first? her unbearable mother is saying. What we see or how we see it?

Think how quiet a book is on a shelf, he said, just sitting there, unopened. Then think what happens when you open it.

Well, truth's like the sun. Look right at it and that's your eyes ruined for life.

Always be reading something, he said. Even when we're not physically reading. How else will we read the world? Think of it as a constant.

All short stories long.

because looking is just the start of understanding, just its surface, the top layer of any understanding, the girl is saying

See how it's deep in our animal nature, Daniel said. Not to see what's happening right in front of our eyes.