Quotes About Insight

had I but sought wisdom first, my gold would not have been lost to me.

I would be guided by the wisdom of age and not by the inexperience of youth.

if you have the intelligence to grasp the truth I offer you.

Our acts can be no wiser than our thoughts. Our thoughts can be no wiser than our understanding.

The hungrier one becomes, the clearer one's mind works

And when youth comes to age for advice he receives the wisdom of years.

a truth that had been known and used by wise men long before his time.

for those who have the wisdom to understand its magic power.

Be not misled by

He wanted others to benefit from his own bitter experiences.

Yet, who can measure in bags of gold, the value of wisdom?

Deride not what I say because of its simplicity. Truth is always simple.

Le vrai est trop simple, il faut y arriver toujours par le compliqué.

I]t is that we are too apt to despise what appears to be neither good nor beautiful, and thus we lose what is helpful and salutary.

Chacun pourrait intéresser au roman de sa propre vie, s'il l'avait compris...

Chacun pourrait s'intéresser au roman de sa propre vie, s'il l'avait compris...

Sanity is a madness put to good uses.

The wisest mind has something yet to learn.

To know your future you must know your past

Now I began to understand art as a kind of black box the reader enters. He enters in one state of mind and exits in another. The writer gets no points just because what's inside the box bears some linear resemblance to real life -- he can put whatever he wants in there. What's important is that something undeniable and nontrivial happens to the reader between entry and exit.

The thing about girls? Suzanne said. Is we are more content-driven.

The main thing I want us to be asking together is: What did we feel and where did we feel it? (All coherent intellectual work begins with a genuine reaction.)

No worthy problem is ever solved in the plane of its original conception.

It's kind of crazy but, in my experience, that's the whole game: (1) becoming convinced that there is a voice inside you that really, really knows what it likes, and (2) getting better at hearing that voice and acting on its behalf.