Quotes About Insight

The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them.

You can never be wise unless you love reading.

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

The size of a man's understanding may always be justly measured by his mirth.

what reason did not dictate, reason cannot explain.

No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes, than a public library.

Those who take little thought find it easy to pronounce an opinion. - On Optimism

All knowledge is of itself of some value. There is nothing so minute or inconsiderable that I would not rather know it than not.

APOPHTHEGM  (A'POPHTHEGM)   n.s. remarkable saying; a valuable maxim uttered on some sudden occasion.

ABLEPSY  (A'BLEPSY)   n.s.[   Gr.] Want of sight, natural blindness; also unadvisedness.Dict.

When I survey my past life, I discover nothing but a barren waste of time, with disorders of the mind very near to madness.

Even now that I have concluded this moving recapitulation, it seems as nothing; and the whole world, my dear is as a bit of dirt under my feet.

They reflected a broader

And yet all I have said is but  from common reading. And, let me ask, why, because we know but little, we are to be supposed to know nothing?

The experience gathered from books, though often valuable,is but the nature of learning whereas the experience gained from actual life is of the nature of wisdom

We learn wisdom from failure much more than success. We often discover what we will do, by finding out what we will not do.

The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning whereas the experience gained form actual life is of the nature of wisdom.

Žmog? visada galima pažinti iš jo skaitom? knyg?.

Until you understand a writer's ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.

People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.

The first man of science was he who looked into a thing, not to learn whether it could furnish him with food, or shelter, or weapons, or tools, or ornaments, or play-withs, but who sought to know it for the gratification of knowing. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

An artist who is inspired is being obvious.

What people aren't looking for, they rarely see.

last to know, but he usually wants to know." "Knowing wouldn't have made a difference