Quotes About Insight

You will observe with Concern how long a useful Truth may be known, and exist, before it is generally receiv'd and practis'd on.

The eye of a master will do more work than both his hands';

As the Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard noted, life can only be understood backwards—but it must be lived forwards.

Cleverness, as usual, takes all the credit it possibly can. But it's not the clever mind that's responsible when things work out. It's the mind that sees what's in front of it, and follows the nature of things.

Now, scholars can be very useful and necessary, in their own dull and up amusing way. They provide a lot of information. It's just that there is something more, and that something more is what life is really about.

Knowledge doesn't really care. Wisdom does.

Ä°nsan kendi bilgi küresinde olan ÅŸeyden guru duyuyor ama onun bile ötesinde olana ne kadar ba??ml? olduÄŸunu anlamaktan acizdir.

The world was not a setter of traps, but a teacher of valuable lessons.

A clever mind is not a heart. Knowledge doesn't really care, wisdom does.

The wise know their limitations; the foolish do not.

To know the way, we go the way, we do the way. The way we do, the things we do, it's all there in front of you. But if you try too hard to see it, you'll only become confused. I am me and you are you. As you can see; but when you do the things that you can do, you will find the way. The way will follow you.

But isn't the knowledge that comes from experience more valuable than the knowledge that doesn't? It seems fairly obvious to some of us that a lot of scholars need to go outside and sniff around - walk through the grass, talk to the animals. That sort of thing.

Now, scholars can be very useful and necessary, in their own dull and unamusing way. They provide a lot of information. It's just that there is Something More, and that Something More is what life is really all about.

I knew, suddenly, that I was someone else, with more elements. It surprised me that the touching of hands could do that: reveal to you a new piece of who you were.

So you could write what you know. The problem, of course, is that some people don't know shit.

An expert is a person who avoids small error as he sweeps on to the grand fallacy.

Through the cultivation of the fruit of the Spirit within our hearts, we begin to experience deeper gifts, including a gift of discernment that provides personal insight and revelation.

The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.

To be critical meant to elevate thinking so far beyond all restrictive conditions that the knowledge of truth sprang forth magically, as it were, from insight into the falsehood of these restrictions.

Nothing is as it seems. Seeing is not believing. Sometimes... you have to feel, touch, experience... and use your intelligence.

To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight.... A flash, and where previously the brain held a dead fact, the soul grasps a living truth! At moments we are all artists.

I found myself in the position of that child in a story who noticed a bit of string and - out of curiosity - pulled on it to discover that it was just the tip of a very long and increasingly thick string...and kept bringing out wonders beyond reckoning

My life seemed to be a series of events and accidents. Yet when I look back I see a pattern.

In economics, there can never be a "theory of everything." But I believe each attempt comes closer to a proper understanding of how markets behave.