Quotes About Insight

In fact, the Latin root of the word literacy is the same as for the word intellect: leggere, "to read." The source for the word intellectual also gives us its true meaning: inter-leggere, "to read between." An intellectual is defined by an ability to read between the lines, to analyze and to think critically, to understand things on many levels at the same time.

Very often, the title given to an artwork is the key to unlocking its hidden meanings. For

I actually don't think that I'm that much smarter than anybody else. It's just that I frequently just seem to know what to do, and I think that's wisdom.

nobody in the world ever learns except at his own expense...

Experience is the child of Thought, and Thought is the child of Action. We cannot learn men from books.

As a general rule the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.

Mediocrity can talk but it is for genius to observe.

The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.

Where knowledge ends, religion begins.

As a rule, he or she who has the most information will have the greatest success in life.

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.

What we learn from history is that we do not learn from history

Read no history--nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.

Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.

The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write about it.

How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.

To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge

Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember and remember more than I have seen.

Do not read history. Read biography for it is life without theory.

Experience is the best teacher, but a fool will learn from no other.

Lighthouses are more helpful than churches.

What signifies knowing the names, if you know not the nature of things.

The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.