Quotes About Insight

One must spend time in gathering knowledge to give it out richly.

Ma come hai fatto capirlo, Clod?» si erano stupiti i miei parenti. «Come hai fatto a capire che la spilla da balia era lì?» «L'ho sentita gridare,» avevo risposto.

One should therefore not rely on mere words, but everywhere search for the intention behind them. (121)

The best philosophy doesn't just come up with a few new facts that we can simply add yo our stock of information, or a few new maxims to extend our list of dos and don'ts, but embodies a picture of the world and/or a set of values.

Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it.

Most executives, many scientists, and almost all business school graduates believe that if you analyze data, this will give you new ideas. Unfortunately, this belief is totally wrong. The mind can only see what it is prepared to see.

Sometimes the situation is only a problem because it is looked at in a certain way. Looked at in another way, the right course of action may be so obvious that the problem no longer exists.

Simplicity before understanding is simplistic; simplicity after understanding is simple. - Edward De Bono

The trouble was that the adventure with Sir Launcelot had seemed to point a moral. And if you have ever had a moral pointed at you, you will know that it is not a completely pleasant feeling. You are grateful for being improved, and you hope you will remember and do better next time, but you do not want to think about it very much just now.

Every picture tells a story.

Oliver Wendell Holmes once attended a meeting in which he was the shortest man present. "Dr. Holmes," quipped a friend, "I should think you'd feel rather small among us big fellows." "I do," retorted Holmes, "I feel like a dime among a lot of pennies."

If you don't know there's a trampoline in the room, you're not going to dust the ceiling for prints.

If thou seest a man of understanding, get thee betimes unto him, and let thy foot wear the steps of his door.

Nobody knows the age of the human race, but everybody agrees that it is old enough to know better.

In much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.

None are so blind as those who will not see.

Swimming: From the outside looking in, you can

There's more to the truth than just the facts.

I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee.

But where shall wisdom be found? and where is the place of understanding?

Sometimes the only way you can take a really good look at yourself is through somebody else's eyes.

With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding.

A good example has twice the value of good advice.

Immediately there fell from his eyes as it had been scales.