Quotes About Insight

Every animal knows more than you do. Nez Perce

Like a Gypsy, like a witch, like Mama, she knew how to see things in a person that they'd just as soon forget.

At my age, only naivete still manages to scandalize me sometimes.

La route quelquefois s'agrémente de fables, comme le sommeil s'agrémente de songes, il faut savoir ouvrir les yeux à l'arrivée.

Je ne porte aucun jugement, je constate seulement.

Le monde est une machine complexe qui ne se démonte pas avec un tournevis. Ce qui ne doit pas nous interdire d'observer, de chercher à comprendre, de spéculer, de discuter, de suggérer parfois telle ou telle voie de réflexion.

J'ai toujours eu de l'aversion à la fois pour les riches et pour les pauvres. Ma patrie sociale, c'est l'entre-deux. Ni les possédants, ni les revendicateurs. J'appartiens à cette frange médiane qui, n'ayant ni la myopie des nantis ni l'aveuglement des affamés, peut se permettre de poser sur le monde un regard lucide.

At every stage of the journey you arrive somewhere and with every step you can discover a hidden facet of our planet.

Only drunks stare at statues .... I never liked the statues keeping vigil, primarily because they were too close to life.

Vipassana meditation is not just seeing the things inside. It is also seeing the seer.

Every mistake is a lesson

The eyes have a property in things and territories not named in any title-deeds, and are the owners of our choicest possessions.

That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed with profit.

I find my past in my present, and from these forecast my future.

Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.

Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

Prudence is the footprint of Wisdom.

An author who sets his reader on sounding the depths of his own thoughts serves him best.

Who knows the mind has the key to all things else.

The best way to know the soul of another country is to read its literature.

I now believe that all journeys are ridiculous: the only journey from which you don't always come back empty-handed is the journey inside yourself.

Less noticed was Tetlock's other finding: predicting the future wasn't just lucky guessing. Some people did much, much better than average.115 He called them superforecasters.

The world out there is inherently hard to understand and human brains are not wired to understand it well.

The foreseeability of the world out there varies in systematic ways for systematic reasons.