Quotes About Insight

Everything that surrounds you can give you something.51 —Hungarian photographer André Kertész

The artist sees what others only catch a glimpse of.

All our knowledge has its origin in our perceptions

Learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else.

All sciences are vain and full of errors that are not born of Experience, the mother of all Knowledge.

I awoke only to find that the rest of the world was still asleep.

He who thinks little errs much…

Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!

Wisdom is the daughter of experience

To develop a complete mind: Study the science of art; Study the art of science. Learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else.

The acquisition of knowledge is always of use to the intellect, because it may thus drive out useless things and retain the good. For nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first known.

He who truly knows has no occasion to shout.

It is an acknowledged fact that we perceive errors in the work of others more readily than in our own.

Experience does not err; only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.

The eye sees a thing more clearly in dreams, than the imagination awake.

The organ of perception acts more readily than judgment.

I awoke, only to see that the rest of the world is still asleep.

It's not enough that you believe what you see. You must also understand what you see.

I expose to men the origin of their first, and perhaps second, reason for existing

Avoid the precepts of those thinkers whose reasoning is not confirmed by experience.

Experience is a truer guide than the words of others.

He who in reasoning cites authority is making use of his memory rather than of his intellect.

Nessuna cosa si può amare nè odiare, se prima no si ha cognition di quella. (No thing you can love or hate, if you don't know it before.)

All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.