Quotes About Insight

Ambiguity is telling you something important, if only you took it seriously. If you did not quickly dispatch it as a pathology.

This human understands enough to know when he's being messed with.

All serious conversations gravitate towards philosophy.

No sensible man watches his feet hit the ground. He looks ahead to see what kind of ground they'll hit next.

All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.

Before we take to the sea, we walk on land. . . Before we create, we must understand. . .

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.

As a writer, you should not judge, you should understand.

Gödel saw beyond the surface level of number theory, realizing that numbers could represent any kind of structure.

The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have given his life.

el enamorado es el que descubre en el ser amado unas perfecciones que realmente tiene pero que los demás no son capaces de ver. No es un visionario sino un clarividente.

I write from the worm's-eye point of view.

Our whole life is solving puzzles.

Thus for Haeckel, to know is not to conceptualize but to see. What nature is, is visible on its surface.

Tell me your relation to pain, and I will tell you who you are!

Keeping a journal: The short entries are often as dry as instant tea. Writing them down is like pouring hot water over them to release their aroma.

Like everything on this earth, plants want to speak to us, but understanding their language requires a clear mind.

Physics is experience, arranged in economical order.

The searching human mind is not satisfied merely to discover facts. We also want to know how things happen and why.

I can hardly keep track of the things I don't know, but every now and then comes an ignorance that makes me nostalgic.

Je prends le livre ouvert à la pliure, je me remets à son rythme, à la respiration d'un autre qui raconte. Si moi aussi je suis un autre, c'est parce que les livres, plus que les années et les voyages, changent les hommes.

En lisant, on rencontre des phrases sismiques.

Leerlos (libros) se parecía a adentrarse en el mar con la barca, la nariz era la proa, las líneas, olas.