Quotes About Insight

We don't want to merely obey God: we need to catch His heart. It is then we will glimpse the wisdom behind His directives, and not just see them as laws.

The result showed the wisdom of your orders.

Just because a man glances up at the sky at night does not make him an astronomer, you know.

If, by contrast, you think that uncovering your mistakes is one of the best ways to revise and improve your understanding of the world, then this is actually a highly optimistic insight.

philosophers are premature ejaculators who decant too soon, spilling their seminal genius to no effect.

Filters fail when they know us too well and when they don't know us well enough.

that's the way of all good explanations. The better they are, the more questions they raise.

Really tapping into our inner vision and inner child might not make us happier or better adjusted, but it might make us appreciate just how smart we really are.

This is the tome that guides haruspication—I mean, psychiatry.)

Can the fundamental insight—the destructive, creative virtue of simplicity—be transposed from the realm of scientific explanation into culture or onto the level of conscious experience? What kind of formal simplicity would make our culture a deeper, more beautiful culture? And what is an elegant mind?

where perspicacity is weakened,

conclusions:

intelligence and wisdom aren't the same.

Wise men never grow up; indeed, they grow younger, for they lose the appalling worldly wisdom of youth.

We look for romance in the well-cultivated garden-plots, and when it springs out of virgin soil we are surprised, though any fool might know it was the natural place for it.

The men who knew that he knew what he knew had found him

Don't ask me when I first mastered the obvious.

Take your eyes away for a moment, then let them return to the object of contemplation, and it is as if you were experiencing the effect for the first time.

The lesson which life repeats and constantly enforces is 'look under foot.' You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.

The lesson which life repeats and constantly enforces is 'look under foot.' You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.

A man with experience is never at the mercy of a man with an opinion.

We are too small, all but a few of us, to hold more than a little of the truth.

It takes wisdom to know what we don't know

For as 'Wright's Ninth Rule of Writing' states, every story teaches a moral, whether intended by the author or not.