Quotes About Insight

When your sight has become good enough to see the bottom of the dark well of your being and knowing, you may also see in its mirror the distant constellations of future cultures.

From the practice of wise men.—To become wise, one must wish to have certain experiences and run, as it were, into their gaping jaws. This, of course, is very dangerous; many a wise guy has been swallowed. 301

88 One begins to distrust very clever persons when they become embarrassed.

know how to employ the diversity of perspectives and emotional interpretations for the advancement of knowledge.

There is great advantage to be gained in distantly estranging ourselves from our age and for once being driven as it were away from its shores back on to the ocean of the world-outlooks of the past. Looking back at the coast from this distance we command a view, no doubt for the first time, of its total configuration, and when we approach it again we have the advantage of understanding it better as a whole than those who have never left it.

Of inference, all are capable; of judgment, only a few.

Kada dugo gledaš u bezdan tada bezdan krene gledati u tebe

better than they words express it, thine eyes tell me all thy danger

he who hears only a Will to Truth in the background, and nothing else, cannot certainly boast of the sharpest ears.

Und wenn du lange genug in einen Abgrund blickst, blickt der Abgrund auch in dich hinein.

The errors of great men are more valuable than the truths of lesser men.

at the age of thirty, when it comes to high culture, one is a beginner, a child.—

And if thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will also gaze into thee.

One who understands wanders among humans as among beasts.

What is not intelligible to me is not necessarily unintelligent.

That is the trouble with a clear mind. For a little while you see things as they really are and you can accurately predict how they're going to shape the future ... and then suddenly you realize you've predicted yourself a week or a month into the future and you can't live the intervening time any more because you've already imagined it in detail.

The biggest wars are the wars of thought. The Oldest Soldier

Even at that, I don't suppose I should have been surprised. We all see things now and then.

Quien miente con arte se acerca a la verdad más de lo que imagina.

Science is not wisdom.

Learning comes from books; penetration of a mystery from suffering.

Facts themselves do not give knowledge

From my experience it is always well never to pay attention to what people say, but rather why they say it.

Where's Nadine?" "She went out for a walk the other day and didn't come back." "Really." I tried to sound surprised. "No sweat," he said. "Pussy may well be the only true renewable resource, Leo. I've got another one lined up for when I get back." I had to admire a man with that kind of insight and planning.