Quotes About Insight

The eyesight for an eagle is what thought is to a man.

This dwarf still observes the world from his own self-imposed height.

Total knowledge is annihilation of the desire to see, to touch, to feel the world sensed only through senses and immune to the knowledge without feeling.

Your head is a lit chamber.

The more you know, the more you can make fun of.

Writing taught me who I was, because your writing is your fingerprint

I don't think I've ever been moulded but I think I am always learning.

You see, I am good at filling in blanks, at seeing meaning where there may have been none at all. In this way I get very close to the truth. Or closer still to illusion.

In truth we know nothing, for truth lies in the depth.

The Truth is in the Depths

L'esprit de l'escalier [staircase wit].

The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action.

I can be expected to look for truth but not to find it.

There are things I can't force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint.

You must look within for value, but must look beyond for perspective.

When he opens his eyes he gives to what he gazes at the recognition no look ever before granted it. It becomes a word.

One can anyway only be shown something one knows already, needs already. Showing anyone anything really amounts to removing the last thin film that prevents their seeing what they are looking at.

So I did indeed set out, as John Steinbeck says in his gavels with Charley, "not to instruct others but to inform myself.

Well, until this very day, I'm still learning.

Experience is knowing what not to do and knowing when not to do it.

When you see everything you realise nothing means anything.

when you see everything, you realize that nothing means anything

You cannot understand any individual passage in Revelation unless you understand the book as a whole, but you cannot understand the hook as a whole unless you understand its individual passages.

Wisdom begins with reverence for God." No God, no wisdom (witness your local university).