Quotes About Insight

Update your awareness before using it."

No one is without knowledge except him who asks no questions.

Good intelligence wins battles long before the first arrow is shot or the first sword is drawn from its scabbard.

The best dividends on labor invested have invariably come from seeking more knowledge rather than more power.

All a poet can do today is warn.

Henry James created more convincing women than Iris Murdoch put together.

To attempt this would be like seeing without eyes or directing the gaze of knowledge behind one's own eye. Modern science can acknowledge no other than this epistemological stand-point.

Erst durch Lesen lernt man, wie viel man ungelesen lassen kann.

Gençler her zaman hakl?d?r, ben eminim bundan, hakl? de?ilseler de haklar? vard?r. ?unu demek istiyorum: Kendi tecrübelerini edinmeye sonuna kadar haklar? vard?r. Kötü tecrübeler olsa bile bunlar, ders ç?kar?rlar.

People who do not understand themselves have a craving for understanding.

People get sick from ''not wanting to see''.

Qué es el sentido común sino la pereza inherente a nuestro entendimiento, de salir del recinto tan pequeño y tan mezquino de nuestras representaciones y admitir la posibilidad de otras premisas?

Ah, well! We live and learn, or, anyway, we live.

Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.

Education is a progressive discovery of our ignorance.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

Why did you stop working just now?" The answer from inside the lab was often, "How did you know?" to which we would reply, "We have a window to your soul.

The technical definition of heuristic is a simple procedure that helps find adequate, though often imperfect, answers to difficult questions. The word comes from the same root as eureka.

Everything makes sense in hindsight.

Searching for wisdom in historic events requires an act of faith—a belief in the existence of recurrent patterns waiting to be discovered.

Rationality is logical coherence—reasonable or not.

Lo mejor que podemos hacer es llegar a un compromiso: aprender a reconocer situaciones en las que los errores sean probables y esforzarnos en evitar errores importantes cuando están en juego cosas de primer orden. La premisa de este libro es que es más fácil reconocer los errores de otros que los nuestros.

answer. Intuition is nothing more and nothing less than recognition.