Quotes About Insight

Therefore the man of genius requires imagination, in order to see in things not what nature has actually formed, but what she endeavoured to form, yet did not bring about, because of the conflict of her forms with one another

Education stuffs you full of ideas without the coinciding experience that gave rise to those ideas in the first place, giving you incorrect perspective and notions.

Intellect is invisible to the man who has none.

I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.

reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with ones own

Said in reference to Ludwig Wittgenstein: Talent is like the marksman who hits a target which others cannot reach; genius is like the marksman who hits a target others cannot even see.

The more distinctly a man knows, the more intelligent he is, the more pain he has; the man who is gifted with genius suffers most of all.

You can know only what you have thought about.

When we read, another person thinks for us: we merely repeat his mental process.

Tutti prendono i limiti della loro visione per i limiti del mondo.

Genius and madness have something in common: both live in a world that is different from that which exists for everyone else

Without books the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are the engines of change, windows on the world, Lighthouses as the poet said erected in the sea of time. They are companions, teachers,magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind, Books are humanity in print.

Gesunder Menschenverstand kann fast jeden Grad von Bildung ersetzen, aber kein Grad von Bildung den gesunden Menschenverstand.

The cause of laughter is simply the sudden perception of the incongruity between a concept and the real project.

Life is only the mirror into which a man gazes not in order that he may get a reflection of himself, but that he may come to understand himself by that reflection; that he may see what it is that the mirror shows.

The more distinctly a man knows, the more intelligent he is, the more pain he has.

Those who are so zealous and eager to settle debated questions by citing authorities, are really glad when they are able to put the understanding and the insight of others into the field in place of their own, which are wanting.

The character of the human being is empirical. Only through experience can one become acquainted with it, not merely with that of others, but also with one's own.

Il talento coglie un bersaglio che nessuno riesce a colpire. Il genio coglie un bersaglio che nessuno riesce a vedere.

Thus the task is not so much to see what no one yet has seen, but to think what nobody yet has thought about that which everybody sees.

However, the main endeavor must always be to let particular observations precede general ideas, and not vice versa, as is usually and unfortunately the case; as though a child should come feet foremost into the world, or a verse be begun by writing down the rhyme! The ordinary method

We should rather consider the events, as they happen, with the same eye as we consider the printed word which we read, knowing full well that it was there before we read it.

Above all the genuine philosopher will generally seek lucidity and clarity and will always strive not to be like a turbid, raging, rain-swollen stream, but much more like a Swiss lake, which, in its peacefulness, combines great depth with a great clarity that just reveals its great depth.

Bref, très peu de gens savent réfléchir, mais tous veulent avoir des opinion ;