Quotes About Insight

Cahil olmasayd?n?z, dünyada birçoklar?n?n kendilerine göre bir güzellikleri olduÄŸunu bilirdiniz.

How all becomes clear and simple when one opens an eye on the within, having of course previously exposed it to the without, in order to benefit by the contrast.

In order to obtain the optimum view of what takes place in front of me, I should have to lower my eyes a little. But I lower my eyes no more. In a word, I only see what appears close beside me, what I best see I see ill.

The blind have no notion of time. The things of time are hidden from them too.

Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.

There are some things which it is madness not to try to know but which it is almost as much madness to try to know.

A great portrait is always more a portrait of the painter than of the painted.

If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.

If a man has not studied painting, or at any rate black and white drawing, his eyes are wild; learning to draw tames them. The first step towards taming the eyes is to teach them not to see too much.

The Bible may be the truth but it's not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

A blind man knows he cannot see, and is glad to be led, though it be by a dog; but he that is blind in his understanding, which is the worst blindness of all, believes he sees as the best, and scorns a guide.

we must judge men not so much by what they do, as by what they make us feel that they have it in them to do.

No man was ever yet a great poet, without at the same time being a profound philosopher.

The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names. —Chinese Proverb

Can we learn a technique to make our own descriptions of people more incisive and complete?

Anything is easy to the man who sees.... The open eye of the open mind--that has more to do with real detective work than all the deduction and induction and analysis ever devised.

The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

Let observation with extensive viewSurvey mankind, from China to Peru.

What a strange narrowness of mind now is that, to think the things we have not known are better than the things we have known.

Books that you may carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are the most useful after all.

Many useful and valuable books lie buried in shops and libraries, unknown and unexamined, unless some lucky compiler opens them by chance, and finds an easy spoil of wit and learning.

As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which he cannot apply will make no man wise.

Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all.

You must have taken great pains, sir; you could not naturally been so very stupid.