Quotes About Insight

We may know ourselves, and yet even with all the efforts we make, we do not know ourselves. We know our fellowman, and yet we do not know him, because we are not a thing, and our fellowman is not a thing. The further we reach into the depths of our being, on someone else's being, the more the goal of knowledge eludes us.

Erkenntnis] ist nur möglich, wenn ich mein eigenes Interesse transzendiere und den anderen so sehe, wie er wirklich ist.

Every time you read a book your mind touches that of the person who wrote it – even if they died a long time ago.

Is reading a sport?

We think we know people. We think that what we see is all there is. We rarely ask ourselves what goes on behind the curtain. We jump to conclusions. And we take everything very personally.

went to the window off the porch, and I saw

My task is teach my students how to ask the right questions.

You mustn't hit her over the head with it. Women like to be romanced like the heroines in the sensation novels." "What the devil do you know about sensation novels?" "A man can learn a great deal about women from novels," Matt said. "You should try it sometime.

Some people find that reading novels is very therapeutic precisely because it does allow one to view reality from an entirely different perspective.

In a road-mender's hut near Vézelay they found a message scrawled on the wall: "La vie est un desert, la femme un chameau. Pour voir le desert il faut monter sur le chameau." ("Life is a desert, woman is a camel. If you want to see the desert you have to ride the camel.")

I believe that gay people are different, uniquely gifted with the insights and brilliance that stepping outside the heterosexual norm has given us. That is exactly the source of our power.

Sip Someone else's logic then spit it out

Advice, n. the smallest current coin.

There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don't know.

Education, n. That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.

All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.

Genius - To know without having learned to draw just conclusions from unknown premises to discern the soul of things.

It is little men know of women their smiles and their tears alike are seldom what they seem.

It takes a man to know men and all the wickedness mixed up in their flesh and blood.

You haven't seen a tree until you've seen its shadow from the sky.

You haven't seen a tree until you've seen its shadow from the sky.

We learn to acquire knowledge and with wisdom, we apply it.

As a child, I didn't know what I didn't have. I'm thankful for the challenges early on in my life because now I have a perspective on the world and kind of know what's important.

Experience without learning is better than learning without experience.