Quotes About Insight

Students, and learned persons of all sorts and every age, aim as a rule at acquiring information rather than insight. They pique themselves upon knowing about everything—stones, plants, battles, experiments, and all the books in existence. It never occurs to them that information is only a means of insight, and in itself of little or no value.

Como seriam eruditos alguns autores se soubessem tudo o que está em seus próprios livros!) Por isso, seu texto costuma ter um sentido tão indeterminado que os leitores quebram em vão a cabeça na tentativa de descobrir o que eles pensam afinal. Eles simplesmente não pensam.

Leer es pensar con la cabeza de otro en lugar de con la propia.

Tan sólo escribe cosas dignas de ser leídas el que únicamente escribe para decir algo.

Pseudo-philosophers, on the contrary, use speech, not indeed to conceal their thoughts, as M. de Talleyrand has it, but rather to conceal the absence of them

Talentul e precum un ?inta? care love?te o ?int? pe care ceilal?i nu o pot nimeri; geniul e precum un ?inta? care love?te o ?int? pe care ceilal?i nu o pot vedea.

There are, in the capacities of mankind, three varieties: one man will understand a thing by himself; another so far as it is explained to him; a third, neither of himself nor when it is put clearly before him.

Kant's old hat; the autographs of great men; these things are gaped at with interest and awe by many who have never read their works. They cannot do anything more than just gape. The intelligent amongst them are moved by the wish to see the objects which the great man habitually had before his eyes; and by a strange illusion, these produce the mistaken notion that with the objects they are bring back the man himself.

Every Man Mistakes the Limits of His Vision For The Limits Of The World..

The pedagogy of suffering means that one who suffers has something to teach, just as Gail claims, and thus has something to give, as Mairs recognizes.

She knew very well that she knew very well that she knew very well.

Empathy sometimes achieves what scholarship cannot

He began to look wiser than he really was. Like a fisherman in a city. With sea-secrets in him

I would like to write one of those sophisticated stories in which even though nothing much happens there's lots to write about.

The harbinger of harsh reality:

She wondered how to un-know certain things, certain specific things that she knew but did not wish to know.

She wondered how to un-know certain things

No matter how often I talk to God, he never tells me anything I didn't already know.

If the eye of the heart is open, in each atom there will be one hundred secrets.

In psychology, there's something called the broken-leg problem. A statistical formula may be highly successful in predicting whether or not a person will go to a movie in the next week. But someone who knows that this person is laid up with a broken leg will beat the formula. No formula can take into account the infinite range of such exceptional events.

this claim makes little sense.

Surgery itself is a kind of autopsy. "Autopsy" literally means "to see for oneself," and, despite our knowledge and technology, when we look we're often unprepared for what we find.

Thinking about averting plane crashes in 1935, or stopping infections of central lines in 2003, or rescuing drowning victims today, I realized that the key problem in each instance was essentially a simple one, despite the number of contributing factors.

A resident has a distinctive vantage on medicine. You are an insider, seeing everything and a part of everything; yet at the same time you see it anew.