Quotes About Insight

I'll never take any credit for Lady Gaga or Katy Perry's success. But I knew within a month that Gaga was going to be huge.

You can easily see why the experience of Jews would be helpful if you're looking to get action on religious persecution.

There is an optical illusion about every person we meet.

The knowledge from an enlightened person breaks on the hard rocks of ignorance.

What we know here is very little, but what we are ignorant of is immense.

dans une bibliothèque] Sentiment que tout était écrit, décrit, expliqué, mais surtout "révélé", pour peu qu'on sût trouver le bon chemin de mots. Sentiment de pouvoir, au hasard, ouvrir l'une des millions de portes du monde.

What we know is not much. What we don't know is enormous.

What we know is little, and what we are ignorant of is immense.

It is easier to judge the mind of a man by his questions rather than his answers.

What we know is not much. What we do not know is immense.

All things make sense; you just have to fathom how they make sense.

Art is solving problems that cannot be formulated before they have been solved. The shaping of the question is part of the answer.

MEETING THE EYE You'll probably find that it suits your book to be a bit cleverer than you look. Observe that the easiest method by far is to look a bit stupider than you are.

I'd like to know what this whole show is all about before it's out.

Knowing what Thou knowest not Is in a sense Omniscience.

CANDLE WISDOM If you knew what you will know when your candle has burnt low, it would greatly ease your plight while your candle still burns bright.

THE WISDOM OF THE SPHERES How instructive is a star! It can teach us from afar just how small each other are.

Nothing, it appears to me is of greater value in a man than the power of judgement and the man who has it may be compared to a chest fulled with books, for he is the son of nature and the father of art.

The days that are still to come are the wisest witnesses.

Do not peer too far.

A man tells you the most interesting things he knows during the first half hour he talks to you; after that he either repeats himself or offers you variations of the same theme.

A man tells you the most interesting things he knows during the first half hour he talks to you; after that he either repeats himself or offers you variations on the same theme.

Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.

Science is nothing but perception.