Quotes About Insight

He [Thomas Hobbes] had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men, he should have known no more than other men.

A paradox is something which tests your spiritual eyesight.

Self knowledge is always bad news.

When you look at this mirror I hope you'll remember that there's always another way of seeing things: that's the beginning of wisdom.

No poem is easily grasped so why should any reader expect fast results?

Sometimes poetry is inspired by the conversation entered into by reading other poems.

This is even more obviously true of the books of the prophets (Chapter 4), which arose from various specific political crises in Israel's history, and in any case often seem to speak in riddles.

Experience alone can give a final answer. The knowledge gained in a few years by a commission of the kind suggested would be worth more than volumes of mere assertions and contradictions.

Gross's core insight, the one that now drives the entire search economy, is that the search term, as typed into a search box by an Internet user, is inherently valuable—it can be priced.

The professor believed in thought. He was always telling his students that you could get to the unknown by using the known. If you just put the facts that you knew together in the proper way, you might get some truly amazing results.

Rule number one: Always stick around for one more drink. That's when things happen. That's when you find out everything you want to know.

more drink. That's when things happen. That's when you find out everything you want to know.

Seeing come before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak. But there is also another sense in which seeing comes before words. It is seeing which establishes our place in the surrounding world; we explain that world with words, but words can never undo the fact that we are surrounded by it. The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled.

Today we see the art of the past as nobody saw it before. We actually perceive it in a different way.

If we can see the present clearly enough, we shall ask the right questions of the past.

We have no word for this darkness. It is not night and it is not ignorance. From time to time we all cross this darkness, seeing everything: so much everything that we can distinguish nothing. You know it, Marisa, better than I. It's the interior from which everything came.

the more imaginative the work, the more profoundly it allows us to share the artist's experience of the visible.

bakmak bir seçme edimidir.

The past is not for living in; it is a well of conclusions from which we draw in order to act.

kar??daki tepeyi gördüÄŸümüzü kabul edersek o tepeden goruldugumuzu de kabul etmemiz gerekir. görüÅŸün iki yanl?l??? konuÅŸmalar?n iki yanliligindan daha bask?nd?r.

To try to understand the experience of another it is necessary to dismantle the world as seen from one's own place within it, and to reassemble it as seen from his.

When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story's voice makes everything its own.

To remain innocent may also be to remain ignorant.

What any true painting touches is an absence - an absence of which without the painting, we might be unaware. And that would be our loss.