Quotes About Insight

Stats are something which can't define everything. It could be hiding more things than it shows.

I just try to stuff my brain with everything that I can read on what is going on in science at a very high level, and sometimes I see connections of what might need to be done.

If you knew what you were doing, that it would hinder you, you wouldn't do it.

Whose work is it but your own to open your eyes? But indeed the business of the universe is to make such a fool out of you that you will know yourself for one, and begin to be wise.

Seeing is not believing—it is only seeing.

Books are but dead bodies to you, and a library nothing but a catacomb!

Nobody knows what anything is; a man can only learn what a thing means!

We are all very anxious to be understood, and it is very hard not to be. But there is one thing much more necessary.' 'What is that, grandmother?' 'To understand other people.

Just as you could form some idea of the nature of a man from the kind of house he built, if he followed his own taste, so you could, without seeing the fairies, tell what any one of them is like, by looking at the flower till you feel that you understand it.

Indeed, a man is rather being thought than thinking, when a new thought arises in his mind.

Whose work is it but your own to open your eyes?

as no one can be just without love, so no one can truly report without understanding.

every question is a door-handle.

One who not merely beholds the outward shows of things, but catches a glimpse of the soul that looks out of them ...

We are often unable to tell people what they need to know, because they want to know something else.

There is a great deal more to be got out of things than is generally got out of them, whether the thing be a chapter of the Bible or a yellow turnip, and the marvel is that those who use the most material should so often be those that show the least result in strength or character.

I mean, mem, 'at a blin' man, like my gran'father, canna ken himsel' richt, seein' he canna ken ither fowk richt. It's by kennin' ither fowk 'at ye come to ken yersel, mem—isna't noo?

Foreseeing is not understanding, else surely the prophecy latent in man would come oftener to the surface!

If a dream reveal a principle, that principle is a revelation, and the dream is neither more NOR LESS valuable than a waking thought that does the same.

Winna ye be gaein' awa', to write buiks, an' gar fowk fin' oot what's the maitter wi' them?

to teach is the best way to learn, but that the imperfect are the best teachers of the imperfect.

What it is, I can not tell; I only know it is not that which the young fool calls it, still less that which the old sinner thinks it.

Everything in the world is more or less misunderstood at first: we have to learn what it is, and come at length to see that it must be so, that it could not be otherwise. Then we know it; and we never know a thing really until we know it thus.

Religion is nothing if it be not the deepest common-sense.