Quotes About Insight

You have understood me better than I wanted, as the man said when he looked in the mirror.

There is no magic. There is only knowledge, more or less hidden.' Hildegrin

that's something I didn't understand until recently: you don't get that degree; it gets you.

There is more to be learned from any good teacher than the subject taught.

Something like that." "You

Solitude has great attractions for the wise.

Flechas tengo para el corazón del sabio, Guiadas por la naturaleza infalible hasta el blanco, Pero cuando tiendo mi arco ante la multitud de la llanura, Los ignorantes sólo oyen al viento y a él todo lo atribuyen".

it's not wise to deny everything you can't understand.

Dorothea Lange said that 'the camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.

Men may the wise atrenne, and naught atrede.

Truly, it is said, age has great advantage over youth. In age is both wisdom and experience. Youth may outrun the old, but not outwit

The only thing that we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history.

One needs to properly possess only a couple of great thoughts--they shed light on many stretches whose illumination one would never have believed in.

It is manifest that behind the so-called curtain which is supposed to conceal the inner world, there is nothing to be seen unless we go behind it ourselves, as much in order that we may see, as that there may be something behind there which can be seen.

History teaches us that man learns nothing from history.

By means of the simple folk remedy of ascribing to feeling what is the millennia-long labor of reason and of its understanding, all are spared the bother of rational insight and knowledge.

Aber die Philosophie soll keine Erzählung dessen sein, was geschieht, sondern eine Erkenntnis dessen, was wahr darin ist, und aus dem Wahren soll sie ferner das begreifen, was in der Erzählung als ein bloßes Geschehen erscheint.

It is not the purpose of philosophy to edify

What is familiar and well known as such is not really known for the very reason that it is familiar and well known.

The longer I observe the way people really act, the happier I am that I never pay attention to them.

he has this huge blind spot where other people have a sense of humor.

In vain do we extend our view into the heavens, and pry into the entrails of the earth, in vain do we consult the writings of learned men, and trace the dark footsteps of antiquity; we need only draw the curtain of words, to behold the fairest tree of knowledge, whose fruit is excellent, and within the reach of our hand.

When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.

All great truths begin as blasphemies.