Quotes About Insight

For many people, one of the most frustrating aspects of life is not being able to understand other people's behavior.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is delightful to transport one's self into the spirit of the past, to see how a wise man has thought before us.

Why look for conspiracy when stupidity can explain so much.

What a man does not understand, he does not possess.

Yes, one is on the right track when one does not know what one is thinking when one is thinking; everything is handed to one, as it were.

Ah, lo que yo sé, lo puede saber cualquiera: mi corazón lo tengo yo solamente.

The things I know, every man can know, but, oh, my heart is mine alone!

It is not easy in this world for one person to understand the next one.

He serves me somewhat darkly, now, I grant, Yet will he soon attain the light of reason.

Throughout their whole existence men are blind; So, Faust, be thou like them at last.

He who possesses science and art also has religion; but he who possesses neither of those two, let him have religion!

Estará escrito en el destino del hombre que sólo puede ser feliz antes de tener razón o después de haberla perdido? ¡Pobre insensato! Envidio tu locura, envidio el laberinto mental en que te pierdes.

Una palabra sensata se atrofia en un oído duro.

Love of truth shows itself in this, that a man knows how to find and value the good in everything.

Once you learn what life is about, there is no way to erase that knowledge. If you try to do something else with your life, you will always sense that you are missing something

First know yourself, then you will begin to understand why things are as they are, and why life is as it is.

No delusion is greater than the notion that method and industry can make up for lack of mother-wit, either in science or in practical life.

Our life evokes our character and you find out more about yourself as you go on.

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

Convalescence is a sort of grown-up rebirth, enabling us to see life with a fresh eye.

You have to experience real life before you can understand what it means to really worship. That's it.

Perhaps Singapore could learn from us a more relaxed way of life.

I think that finding a way into somebody's life that's sort of off from a side angle can tell you more about that person than a greatest hits approach.