Quotes About Insight

for in history there is nothing more pleasing than clear and brilliant brevity.

he grew old learning many a fresh lesson every day.

it is by no means surprising that though we are first commended to Wisdom by the primary natural instincts, afterwards Wisdom itself becomes dearer to us than are the instincts from which we came to her.

To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.

You can think clearly only with your clothes on.

We understand more than we know.

Now that I am dead, I know everything.

Just because there's a silence it doesn't mean that nothing is going on.

Perhaps its not the world that is soundless but we who are deaf.

We've learned to see the world in gasps.

Everyone thinks writers must know more about the inside of the human head, but that's wrong. They know less, that's why they write. Trying to find out what everyone else takes for granted.

I thought everyone would be familiar with this figure: if I'd studied a thing in school I assumed it was general knowledge. I hadn't yet discovered that I lived in a sort of transparent balloon, drifting over the world without making much contact with it, and that the people I knew appeared to me at a different angle from the one at which they appeared to themselves; and that the reverse was also true. I was smaller to others, up there in my balloon, than I was to myself. I was also blurrier.

I've learned quite a lot, over the years, by avoiding what I was supposed to be learning.

Not real can tell us about real.

I wish I was ignorant, so I didn't know how ignorant I am

As with all knowledge, once you knew it, you couldn't imagine how it was that you hadn't known it before. Like stage magic, knowledge before you knew it took place before your very eyes, but you were looking elsewhere.

This puts him in an instructive mood, and I can see he is going to teach me something, which gentlemen are fond of doing.

As it says in the Bible, For now we through a glass, darkly; but then face to face. If it is face to face, there must be two looking.

You could tell a lot about a person from their fridge magnets, not that he'd thought much about them at the time.

We have learned to see the world in gasps.

Those who have been in trouble themselves are alert to it in others

They blink and reality shivers.

So few people understand about anything.

you don't know won't hurt you. A dubious maxim: sometimes what you don't know can hurt you very much.