Quotes About Insight

The most important things, I told them, were observation and consciousness. Keep your eyes open, see clearly, think about what you see, ask yourself what it means.

Perhaps it was the approach of death that had opened his eyes wide and made him see so clearly.

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

Wonder is the seed of knowledge

In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

Ipsa scientia potestas est. Knowledge itself is power.

Interest makes some people blind and others quick-sighted.

If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads, but what he rereads.

But like many young men who grow up as privileged as Jack of Diamonds, he didn't suspect his own ignorance.

A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.

Highly organized research is guaranteed to produce nothing new.

Proper teaching is recognized with ease. You can know it without fail because it awakens within you that sensation which tells you this is something you have always known.

The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.

To know a thing well, know its limits; Only when pushed beyond its tolerance will its true nature be seen. -The Amtal Rule

Think you of the fact that a deaf person cannot hear. Then, what deafness may we not all possess? What senses do we lack that we cannot see and cannot hear another world all around us?

If you rely only on your eyes, your other senses weaken.

For what do you hunger, Lord?" Moneo ventured. "For a humankind which can make truly long-term decisions. Do you know the key to that ability, Moneo?" "You have said it many times, Lord. It is the ability to change your mind.

Madness in method, that's genius

Ready comprehension is often a knee-jerk response and the most dangerous form of understanding. It blinks an opaque screen over your ability to learn. Be warned. Understand nothing. All comprehension is temporary.

There are many degrees of sight and many degrees of blindness. What senses do we lack that we cannot see another world all around us?

He realized suddenly that it was one thing to see the past occupying the present, but the true test of prescience was to see the past in the future. Things persisted in not being what they seemed.

A good ruler has to learn his world's language, and that's different for every world, the language you don't hear just with your ears.

You don't see much of any path unless you are Janus, looking simultaneously backward and forward.

Questions are my enemies. For my questions explode!