Quotes About Insight

Hope clouds observation

A ruler need not be a prophet, Stil. Nor even godlike. A ruler need only be sensitive. I brought you here with me to clarify what our Imperium requires. It requires good government. That does not depend upon laws or precedent, but upon the personal qualities of whoever governs.

Like as not I have seen them," he said.

And Kynes rubbed his cheek, thinking of the legend: "He shall know your ways as though born to them.

Madness in method, that is genius.

Soltanto i progressisti pensano davvero. Soltanto i progressisti sono intellettuali. Soltanto i progressisti capiscono i bisogni dei loro simili. Quanta cattiveria si annidava in quella parola!, pensò Odrade. Quanto ego segreto che esigeva di sentirsi superiore.

We open windows, Bell, and let in common sense. Even hilarity. Puts more serious matters in perspective.

famed intelligence had become a kind of shrewdness, relying mostly on past observations and past decisions rather than on what she saw in the immediate present.

Truth suffers from too much analysis.

Hangi duyulardan yoksunuz ki, etraf?m?zdaki bir baÅŸka dünyay? göremiyor ve duyam?yoruz?

And now he saw that he had a wealth of data few such minds ever before had encompassed.

Every experience carries it's lesson

Gözler temel önem ta??rd?. Teg ÅŸunu öÄŸrenmiÅŸti ki insan uygun türden gözlerin içinde boÄŸulabilirdi, dosdoÄŸru içlerine gömülebilirdi ve kendisine yap?lan? fark etmezdi...

If you rely only on your eyes, your other senses weaken." It was a Bene Gesserit axiom.

When we think we know something, that's precisely the moment when we should look deeper into the thing.

Arm yourself when the Frog God smiles. — Gowachin admonition

There's no secret to balance. You just have to feel the waves.  Ã¢â'¬â€Darwi Odrade

Think you of the fact that a deaf person cannot hear. Then, what deafness may we not all possess?

Chaque route que l'on suit exactement jusqu'au bout ne conduit exactement à rien. Escaladez la montagne pour voir si c'est bien une montagne. Quand vous serez au sommet de la montagne, vous ne pourrez plus voir la montagne.

Yes, it was a matter of opening doors, he thought. You opened one door and that let you into a place where there were other doors. You chose a door in this new place and examined what that revealed to you. There might be times when you were forced to try all of the doors but the more doors you opened, the more certain you became of which door to open next. Finally, a door would open into a place you recognized. Then you could say: Ahhhh, this explains everything.

Truth suffers from too much analysis. —ANCIENT FREMEN SAYING

Que sentidos nos faltam para que não consigamos ver um outro mundo a nossa volta?

There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.

That's what he disliked about certain artists and writers. They interfered and pointed to everything as if you couldn't see it or read for yourself.