Quotes About Insight

But history shows that logic launched from introspection alone lacks thrust, can travel only so far, and usually heads in the wrong direction.

So what could the hypothetical aliens learn from us that has any value to them? The correct answer is the humanities.

The idea and its supporting logic came in pieces

Art is the lie that helps us to see the truth.

A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it.

Just once in a while let us exalt the importance of ideas and information.

Anyone who isn't confused really doesn't understand the situation.

Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn't mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar.

The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer.

Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn't mean you're any wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar.

It is almost impossible to substitute intelligence for experience.

To clarify, *add* data.

The fault in his son lay not in his nature, which was honorable, but in his perceptions, which were limited.

Could one have a time-release epiphany, an epiphany without realizing it had happened? Or were they always trumpeted by angels and preceded by temporary blindness, Patrick wondered, as he walked down the corridor in the wrong direction.

Photography is a major force in explaining man to man.

Two paradoxes are better than one they may even suggest a solution.

There is nothing at the end of any road better than may be found beside it.

Yet I think he was not wholly the loser by being unable to think. The eye untroubled by thought sees things like a mirror newly burnished; at night, for example, the musing can see nothing before him but a mist, but if he stops thinking quickly the roads, the walls, the trees become visible. (pp217)

The commonality between science and art is in trying to see profoundly - to develop strategies of seeing and showing.

If the statistics are boring, then you've got the wrong numbers.

Peace without knowledge of the cause of that peace is still ignorance.

My own eyes are no more than scouts on a preliminary search, for the camera's eye may entirely change my idea.

The camera sees more than the eye, so why not make use of it?

For the believer, faith is an organ of spiritual perception more dependable than the physical senses of hearing and of sight. 11:2