Quotes About Insight

The eye is the worst way to judge.

I prefer an injurious truth to a useful error. Truth heals any pain it may inflict on us.

How many new discoveries does not a person make when on some high point he ascends but a single story higher.

It used to happen, and still happens, to me to take no pleasure in a work of art at the first sight of it, because it is too much for me; but if I suspect any merit in it, I try to get at it; and then I never fail to make the most gratifying discoveries,to find new qualities in the work itself and new faculties in myself.

You need just what you do not know, and what you really know is worthless.

Abandoning the flatland ages past, And finding mountains much more to their taste, They toil in labyrinthine caverns, dense With gases that are metal's noble source; 10770 They separate, combine, test, trying to Discover things undreamt of hitherto. By spirit power, subtly, they construct Forms clear and crystalline, without defect; Then in the crystal's eternal silence peering, Perceive what in the upper world is occurring.

Time and time again my eyes have been opened to what I am, but always too late and always to no purpose.

Çünkü anlad?m ki, büyük i?leri, mümkün görünmeyeni ba?aran s?rad??? insanlar?n eskiden beri sarho?lar ve deliler oldu?unu ilan etmek gerek.

The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes.

Wisdom lies only in truth.

un cerebro que puede pensar bien, creará con el tiempo un pensador.

Wir sind gewohnt, daß die Menschen verhöhnen, Was sie nicht verstehn.

Perché solo se siamo in grado di immedesimarci abbiamo autorità sufficiente per parlare di una cosa.

Everything is just how I imagined it, yet everything is new

Was du nicht verstehen kannst, kannst du nicht besitzen.

The things I've known — anyone can know, but my heart — that's mine alone.

?nsan kalbinde ne ta??yorsa, dünyaya bak?nca da onu görür...

Ignorant people raise questions which were answered by the wise thousands of years ago

Gözlerin aç?k diye gördü?ünü san?yorsun.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

T?tad man bija visai maz l?dz?ts ar to, ka atbr?vojos no saviem maldiem, - sapr?ts un skaidr? spriešanas sp?ja man nodar?ja v?l liel?ku ?aunumu.

Wer den Dichter will verstehen Muss in Dichters Lande gehen.

??i ai c?ng s?ng qua, nh?ng m?y k? ?ã bi?t ??i

Our errors were endured because we found no beaten path; but from him who comes later into the world more is required; he must not be seeking and blundering, but should use the instructions of the old ones to proceed at once on the right path. It is not enough to take steps which may some day lead to a goal; each step must be itself a goal and a step likewise.