Quotes About Insight

You've always been fond of understanding people too well." "They should arrange not to be understood quite so easily.

Weißt Du, daß es außer den über dreißig Farben in einem Farbtub-Kasten noch eine weitere, für Menschenaugen sehr wohl sichtbare Farbe gibt — die der Traurigkeit?

I have often had the fancy that there is some one Myth for every man, which, if we but knew it, would make us understand all he did and thought.

When all is said and done, how do we know but that our own unreason may be better than another's truth? for it has been warmed on our hearths and in our souls, and is ready for the wild bees of truth to hive in it, and make their sweet honey.

Talent perceives differences; genius, unity

Every intelligent person, whether he's an artist or not - a mathematician, a doctor, a scientist - possesses a poetic way of seeing and describing the world.

Eyes sharp as can-openers pried open heavy secrets.

What we need in literature today are vast philosophic horizons; we need the most ultimate, the most fearsome, the most fearless 'Why?' and 'What next?' ("Literature, Revolution, and Entropy")

Children are the only bold philosophers. And bold philosophers are invariably children.

On days like this you can see into the bluest depth of things, their previously unknown, astonishing equations—you see them in even the most familiar everyday thing.

A quiet fool is half a sage.

Though evasion rarely leads to joy; there is, one must admit, a sense of joy if one can dissect something, oneself included, with precision.

You observe a lot by watching.

You can see a lot by just looking.

A lot of guys go, 'Hey, Yog, say a Yogi-ism.' I tell 'em, 'I don't know any.' They want me to make one up. I don't make 'em up. I don't even know when I say it. They're the truth. And it is the truth. I don't know.

Never make predictions, especially about the future.

You can observe a lot by just watching.

Have wisdom in your actions and faith in your merits.

He preferred smart questions to smart answers.

Events are the best teacher for us. You try to learn from people, there is always some bend to it.

We may all possess wisdom if we are willing to be persuaded that the experience of others is as useful as our own.

A wise man who knows proverbs reconciles difficulties.

The secret to wisdom is curiosity.

Look into those they call unfortunate, And closer view'd, you'll find they are unwise.