Quotes About Insight

In children we often see this path to knowledge quite overtly. The child takes something apart, breaks it up in order to know it; or it takes an animal apart; cruelly tears off the wings of a butterfly in order to know it, to force its secret. The cruelty itself is motivated by something deeper: the wish to know the secret of things and of life.

The idea of authority, which they represented, was associated in our minds with a greater insight and a more humane wisdom.

Nothing is the mirror in which you see the world.

We had suddenly learned to see. And we saw that there was nothing of their world left. We were all at once terribly alone; and alone we must see it through.

I am thinking of those strange moments when unexpectedly a kind of second sight like a deceptive memory seems suddenly to give us glimpses of many earlier lives.

For us lads of eighteen they ought to have been mediators and guides to the world of maturity, the world of work, of duty, of culture, of progress--to the future. We often made fun of them and played jokes on them, but in our hearts we trusted them. The idea of authority, which they represented, was associated in our minds with a greater insight and a more humane wisdom. But the first death we saw shattered this belief.

Jeigu nors kartÄ… tikrai suprastume, kas yra gyvenimas, tikrai sprogtume!

We often made fun of them and played jokes on them, but in our hearts we trusted them. The idea of authority, which they represented, was associated in our minds with a greater insight and a more humane wisdom. But the first death we saw shattered this belief. We had to recognize that our generation was more to be trusted than theirs. They surpassed us only in phrases and in cleverness.

For us lads of eighteen they ought to have been mediators and guides to the world of maturity, the world of work, of duty, of culture, of progress—to the future. We often made fun of them and played jokes on them, but in our hearts we trusted them. The idea of authority, which they represented, was associated in our minds with a greater insight and a more humane wisdom.

The idea of authority, which they represented, was associated in our minds with a greater insight and a more humane wisdom. But the first death we saw shattered this belief. We had to recognize that our generation was more to be trusted than theirs. They surpassed us only in phrases and in cleverness. The first bombardment showed us our mistake, and under it the world as they had taught it to us broke in pieces.

Ainult õnnetu teab, mis on õnn.

Universul este o p?dure uria??, în care raÈ›iunea noastr? nu reprezint? decât un centimetru, în lungime, l??ime È™i în?lÈ›ime.

when you look at the past through a fresh lens, you invariably see the world differently and find new material and insights even along well-trodden paths.

Facts are better than dreams.

With that as my guiding question, I set out on what became a lengthy journey through the vast and tangled forest of Churchill scholarship, a realm of giant volumes, distorted facts, and bizarre conspiracy theories, to try to find my personal Churchill. As I've discovered with prior books, when you look at the past through a fresh lens, you invariably see the world differently and find new material and insights even along well-trodden paths.

When I was young, people used to say to me: Wait until you're fifty, you'll see. I am fifty. I haven't seen anything.

I don't want to see people as other people see them, I want to see them as I see them.

Don't ever fool yourself that facts don't fit, if you get the right explanation. They're just like jigsaw puzzles—when you get them right, they're all going to fit together.

Not to laugh, not to lament, not to curse, but to understand.) —SPINOZA

If a thinker throws off too many unsystematic and rich insights, there is no place to grab onto his thought. The thing he is trying to illuminate seems as elusive as before.

Not to laugh, not to lament, not to curse, but to understand.)

Even a mole may instruct a philosopher in the art of digging.

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

I did not care what it was all about. All I wanted to know was how to live in it. Maybe if you found out how to live in it you learned from that what is was all about.