Quotes About Insight

People think common sense is common - but it's not.

The brighter you are, the more you have to learn.

dedicated to babswith babs knows whatand babs knows why

Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.

Inconveniently, books are all the pages in them, not just the ones you choose to read.

everyone wants insight into others, few people are as willing to look so intently at themselves.

Sad Fact of Life— Smart people sometimes get stupid, but stupid people never get smart. Never. Ever.

La Dama de la Justicia lleva los ojos vendados porque no puede soportar ver lo que ocurre.

Smart people sometimes get stupid, but stupid people never get smart.

Rule of thumb: if you think something is clever and sophisticated beware-it is probably self-indulgence.

Hence our decline of insight as we shift our gaze from human to ant to quark. Our decline of insight should not be mistaken for an insight into decline—a progressive poverty inherent in objective reality. The decline is in our interface, in our perceptions. But we externalize it; we pin it on reality. Then we erect, from this erroneous reification, an ontology of physicalism.

That was the annoying thing about the kid, who was otherwise okay. Every once in a while, he'd get it before anybody else got it, and when he got it, he got it. So Tiny said to him, "If you got it, give it to us.

Common sense and education are highly compatible in fact, neither is worth much without the other.

For only with your help shall They come to see–and with no more Than average daily terror– All things for what they are, All things for what they are.

Once again the historian who wishes to understand this difficult period must try to read between the lines. It

He had the beginning of wrinkles and the easy manner of one who has already made his mistakes.

Those who teach the most about humanity, aren't always human.

Intuition is the GPS of Life.

Do not worry if others do not understand you. Instead worry if you do not understand others.

The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.

There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after.

The final goal ... is to grasp the native's point of view, his relation to life, to realise his vision of his world.

Extraverts ... cannot understand life until they have lived it. Introverts ... cannot live life until they understand it.

The ability to qualify for, receive, and act on personal revelation is the single most important skill that can be acquired in this life.