Quotes About Insight

A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.

See why I think I owe you good advice? And please don't look on me with prejudice: My gender has no bearing on the question Whether I'm offering you a good suggestion.

Comedy too can sometimes discern what is right. I shall not please, but I shall say what is true.

The more you know, the more you know you don't know.

If you would understand anything, observe its beginning and its development

The investigation of the truth is in one way hard, in another easy. An indication of this is found in the fact that no one is able to attain the truth adequately, while, on the other hand, no one fails entirely, but everyone says something true about the nature of all things, and while individually they contribute little or nothing to the truth, by the union of all a considerable amount is amassed.

There is a foolish corner in the brain of the wisest man.

The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.

For the beginning is thought to be more than half of the whole, and many of the questions we ask are cleared up by it.

wherefore one who divines well in regard to the truth will also be able to divine well in regard to probabilities. It

Think as the wise men think, but talk like the simple people do.

Even subjects that are known are known only to a few

to be learning something is the greatest of pleasures of mankind, however small their capacity for it; the reason of the delight in seeing the picture is that one is at the same time as learning— gathering the meaning of things

Learning begins at the level of the learner.

It is a great thing, indeed, to make a proper use of these poetical forms, as also of compounds and strange words. But the greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor. It is the one thing that cannot be learnt from others; and it is also a sign of genius, since a good metaphor implies an intuitive perception of the similarity in dissimilars.

Even if our contact with eternal beings is slight, none the less because of its surpassing value this knowledge is a greater pleasure than our knowledge of everything around us.

It makes more sense if you've lived it." A

In a burst of hideous insight, DeDe realized the depth of her commitment to this marriage. She had just traded adultery for a cheeseburger and an order of french fries.

Never take things for granted. Never ignore what is obvious.

Sentimentality blinds you!

Essential characteristic of the really great novelist: a Christ-like all-embracing compassion.

Good fiction is autobiography dressed in the colours of all mankind.

Man, know thyself. I say it out loud. The phrase is one of those phrases with which everyone is familiar, of which everyone acknowledges the value, and which only the most sagacious put into practice. I don't know why.

It is not until an age has receded into history, and all its mediocrity has dropped away from it, that we can see it as it is — as a group of men of genius. We forget the immense amount of twaddle that the great epochs produced.