Quotes About Insight

I mentioned how much I like the Magi, not only because they stop to ask for directions, but also because they are delightfully comic figures. They speak the truth, even when they do not realize the import of their words. I then compared them to Larry, Moe, and Curly (if these are unfamiliar people to you, ask someone over the age of seventy).

polemics can sometimes be constructive.43 Averil Cameron notes that some polemics help sharpen arguments and consolidate knowledge.44 Polemics also tell us what is at stake for the individual or group issuing the invectives.

Eres bonita -dijo Raúl-. Más aún de lo que pueda parecer a primera vista. Tienes una belleza escondida, que sólo puede conocerse al cabo de un gran rato de verte, de hablarte.

We have all grown wiser.

An old man seating down is able to see far better than a child standing on top of a tree.

The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral portrait." ( About Books; Recoiling, Rereading, Retelling , New York Times, February 22, 1987)

If a book is really good, it deserves to be read again, and if it's great, it should be read at least three times.

The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral portrait.

The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like and ancestral portrait.

Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.

To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all.

We reproach people for talking about themselves but it is the subject they treat best.

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.

As to the kind of truth one finds in books, it is a truth that enables us sometimes to discern what things are not, without ever enabling us to discover what they are.

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.

Great doubts, deep wisdom; Small doubts, little wisdom -

The mark of a good book is it changes every time you read it.

Be honest about what you see, get out of the way and let the story reveal itself

The man who can't visualize a horse galloping on a tomato is an idiot.

It is more or less a given that nothing is less favorable to clairvoyance than the bright sun: physical light and mental light coexist on very poor terms.

The truth can only be seen when you close your eyes to reason and surrender yourself to dreams.

I knew everything, so hard have I tried to read in my streams of tears.

La plus grande faiblesse de la pensée contemporaine me paraît résider dans la surestimation extravagante du connu par rapport à ce qui reste à connaître.