Quotes About Insight

Do not they bring it to pass by knowing that they know nothing at all?

My most interesting correspondence is with my translators. I marvel at their sensitivity over certain passages that just anyone, even if he knows German well, would not appreciate.

I've always wanted to try things for myself before passing a judgment on them.

do not the bewitching power of all studies lie in that they continually open up to us new, unsuspected horizons, not yet understood, which entice us to proceed further and further in the penetration of what appears at first sight only in vague outline?

Even if one is interested only in one's own society, which is one's prerogative, one can understand that society much better by comparing it with others.

Common sense is in medicine the master workman.

Like most of us, he had a large blind spot about his own faults.

The only simplicity for which I would give a straw is that which is on the other side of the complex—not that which never has divined it. —OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, JR. There

F. Scott Fitzgerald said, "The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.

If you don't study any companies, you have the same success buying stocks as you do in a poker game if you bet without looking at your cards.

Know what you own, and know why you own it

Invest in What You Know.

The most effective people are those who can "hold" their vision while remaining committed to seeing current reality clearly

A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.

Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on?

she's teaching me to read to be blind sighted.

she's teaching me to see to be blind sighted.

Between perfect vision and total blindness lies all the truth we know.

Ethnographers adopt a particular stance toward people with whom they work. By word and action, in subtle ways and direct statements, they say, "I want to understand the world from your point of view. I want to know what you know in the way you know it. I want to understand the meaning of your experience, to walk in your shoes, to feel things as you feel them, to explain things as you explain them. Will you become my teacher and help me understand?"[102]

I am imagination. I can see what the eyes cannot see. I can hear what the ears cannot hear. I can feel what the heart cannot feel.

Peers can be the best teachers, because they're the ones that remember what it's like to not understand.

I found him perhaps the least terrifying man I've ever met in the theater—because at first glance I could see through him and he could see through me, and he knew that I knew that he knew. Look, love, I've been bullied all my life by bigger experts than Larry Olivier, I can assure you, and he's just got to get in line.

We don't know who discovered water, but we're certain it wasn't a fish. —John Culkin

It is easy to be clever if you leave something important out.