Quotes About Insight

But to explore the invisible and to hear the unheard are very different from reviving the dead: Baudelaire is therefore first among seers, the king of poets, a true God .

Y si un trozo de madera descubre que es un violín?

Man's labors! Explosions that, from time to time, illuminate my abyss.

It seemed to her as if it had been an unpleasant day. She went over the actual events in her mind, and was astonished to find that, after all, the day had been like many hundreds before it and many, many more that were yet to come.

If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him.

Every man takes the limits of his field of vision for the limits of the world.

The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.

It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character.

Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world.

The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.

Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.

One should use common words to say uncommon things

So the problem is not so much to see what nobody has yet seen, as to think what nobody has yet thought concerning that which everybody sees.

Arthur Scott Bailey

The Mishna Pirkei Avot, Ethics of the Fathers, 4:1 teaches: "Who is wise? He who learns from every person.

To the question whether I would admit that the cause of the decision of the atom has something in common with the cause of the decision of the brain, I would simply answer that there is no cause. In the case of the brain I have a deeper insight into the decision; this insight exhibits it as volition, i.e. something outside causality.

If in a community of the blind one man suddenly received the gift of sight, he would have much to tell which would not be at all scientific.

How solemn is this fact: nothing can be concealed from God!

Science already contained all that was necessary, if you just brought it out.

Gustavo Solivellas dice: "Se requiere mucha inteligencia para disfrazar de artificio las propias emociones" (Arturo Pérez-Reverte)

despite my youth I already suspected that it did no harm to keep my ears open. Just the opposite. In life, danger lies not in not knowing, but in revealing that you do: It is always good to have a sense of the music before the dance begins.

Una mujer perspicaz —continúa ella— adivina al pedante en la tercera frase, y es capaz de ver el talento del que guarda silencio.

A reader is the total of all he's read, in addition to all the films and television he's seen.

Una biblioteca es un lugar donde hallar lo conveniente en el momento oportuno.