Quotes About Insight

If it can be used again, it is not wisdom but theory.

She started reading novels to put herself in the way of secret lives.

I have keen insight and a clear understanding of God's Word. I am a discerner of the signs of the times and know exactly what to do as God's prophecies are fulfilled before me.

He knew he probably sounded like an idiot to the scholars, but sometimes an idiot's perspective ended up getting more things done.

Man, know thyself, and thou wilt know the universe and the gods. —INSCRIPTION AT THE TEMPLE OF DELPHI

the pursuit of knowledge is never for naught. Each line drawn on a map gets us closer to understanding the world and our place in it.

As Tesla once stated, instinct is something which transcends knowledge.

Walter Isaacson's Leonardo da Vinci, which both humanizes the man and offers insight into his genius (do read

Don't be stupid." "I think that's what I'm best known for.

Books are keys that open many doors.

My gran'ther's rule was safer 'n 'tis to crow:Don't never prophesy—onless ye know.

A wise man travels to discover himself.

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

Don't you love that? One of the greatest scientific innovations of all time just came to Townes as he was sitting on a bench in a park. And then he starts "scratching" it out on paper.

Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.

Knowledge, may it be said, is higher than magic and is more to be sought. It is quite possible to see what is happening and yet not know what is forward, for while seeing is believing it does not follow that either seeing or believing is knowing. Many a person can see a thing and believe a thing and know just as little about it as the person who does neither.

You make it sound like the end of the world," said Pritchard. "Not yet," Jensen told him, as he walked away, "but you can see it from here.

Boys are beyond the range of anyone's sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years.

There are two kinds of light - the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.

I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.

and I think of what Hobie said: beauty alters the grain of reality.

Maybe I only see a pattern because I've been staring too long. But then again, maybe I see a pattern because it's there.

Una mente perspicaz siempre acaba descubriendo la razón. ¿Pero la suerte? Es invisible, caótica, angelical.

I believe that it is better to know one book intimately that a hundred superficially