Quotes About Insight

Volyova felt as if her brain consisted of a room full of precocious schoolchildren: individually bright, and—if only they would pool themselves—capable of shattering insights. But some of those schoolchildren were not paying attention; they were staring dreamily out of the window, ignoring her protestations to focus on the present, because they found their own obsessions more intellectually attractive than the dull curriculum she was intent on dispensing.

I never made one of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking

Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created.

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.

When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive thinking.

The only real valuable thing is intuition.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Somebody who only reads newspapers and at best books of contemporary authors looks to me like an extremely near-sighted person who scorns eyeglasses. He is completely dependent on the prejudices and fashions of his times, since he never gets to see or hear anything else.

When the solution is simple, God is answering.

The more I learn, the more I realize how much I don't know.

Information is not knowledge.

A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.

The only source of knowledge is experience.

An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.

Learning is experience. Everything else is just information.

Small is the number of them that see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

It occurred to me by intuition, and music was the driving force behind that intuition. My discovery was the result of musical perception.

The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery. There comes a leap in consciousness, call it Intuition or what you will, the solution comes to you and you don't know how or why.

Creating a new theory is not like destroying an old barn and erecting a skyscraper in its place. It is rather like climbing a mountain, gaining new and wider views, discovering unexpected connections between our starting points and its rich environment. But the point from which we started out still exists and can be seen, although it appears smaller and forms a tiny part of our broad view gained by the mastery of the obstacles on our adventurous way up.

I think 99 times and find nothing. I stop thinking, swim in silence, and the truth comes to me.

Something deeply hidden had to be behind things.

The definition of genius is taking the complex and making it simple.

There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.