Quotes About Insight

Certainly since the Middle Ages we have covered a lot of (medical) ground, gathered an enormous quantity of knowledge and as a result we have so much knowledge that we reach the point of being able to connect the available knowledge, bringing it together. This would foster a deeper insight of the human body and be helpful to develop an overview of the body. The connectivity of knowledge is what this book is about.

You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way.

Love is not wisdom, wisdom is not love. Keep that.

And there are no shortcuts or substitutes for "constant practice" when it comes to developing spiritual discernment—

No knowledge is wasted

Einstein said the only source of knowledge is experience.

You mean who do I like? Oh, Mary Ellen Mark. Diane Arbus." "Arbus?" He scratched his head. "Wasn't it she who said, 'Nothing is ever the same as they said it was. It's what I've never seen before that I recognize'?

We can never benefit today from the wisdom we will have gained tomorrow.

life was not easy. And what an earth-shatteringly original observation that was.

There was at least as much to learn as there was to be taught.

burn. Now, I observe, Ames

Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it.

I imagined at the time that he had some strong reason for not alluding to it, but he soon dispelled the idea by coming round to the subject of his own accord.

reason. Il n'y a pas des sots si incommodes que ceux qui ont de l'esprit!" "You see!" said Athelney Jones, reappearing down the steps

You see, but you do not observe. The distinction is clear. For example, you have frequently seen the steps which lead up from the hall to this room." "Frequently." "How often?" "Well, some hundreds of times." "Then how many are there?" "How many? I don't know." "Quite so! You have not observed. And yet you have seen.

Goethe is always pithy.

Non vedo niente», dissi restituendo il cappello al mio amico.  «Al contrario, Watson, lei vede tutto, ma non riflette su ciò che vede. Non ha il coraggio di trarne delle deduzioni».

Wir sind gewohnt das die Menschen verhoehnen was sie nicht verstehen.

Lestrade had learned by more experiences than he would care to acknowledge that that brain could cut through that which was impenetrable to him.

The proper study of mankind is man, you know.' 'You must study him, then

The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes. Where do you think that I have been?" "A fixture also." "On the contrary, I have been to Devonshire." "In spirit?" "Exactly. My body has remained in this arm-chair and has, I regret to observe, consumed in my absence two large pots of coffee and an incredible amount of tobacco.

Cuando has eliminado lo imposible, lo que queda, por muy improbable que parezca, tiene que ser la verdad.

I am sure, Mr Holmes, that we are very much indebted to you for having cleared the matter up. I wish I knew how you reach your results.' 'I reached this one,' said my friend, 'by sitting upon five pillows and consuming an ounce of shag.

You see, but you do not observe. The distinction is clear. For example, you have frequently seen the steps which lead up from the hall to this room.