Quotes About Insight

I used to think I was pretty typical, but now I see that I'm extreme. I can't judge people according to what works for me.

I've learned to put great store in my own observations of everyday life, because while laboratory experiments are one way to study human nature, they aren't the only way.

When I think of myself in the third person, many things become clearer.

See something once—really see it—and it never looks the same again.

Upholder, I see its dark side, too

It's a Secret of Adulthood: Happiness doesn't always make you feel happy.

I was reminded of Lord Kelvin's observation, overbroad but nevertheless thought-provoking: "When you cannot express it in number, your knowledge is of a meager and unsatisfactory kind.

when we consider the Four Tendencies, we're better able to understand other people.

We often learn most about ourselves by learning about other people

We] often learn more from one person's idiosyncratic experiences than [we] do from scientific studies or philosophical treatises.

By giving something up, I gain.

Once I've spelled out the problem in words, the greater clarity usually helps me to spot a solution.

All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking

We fill up space as if it were a pie shell, with things whose opacity further obstructs our ability to see what is already there. OBITUARY One of the largest sheep ranches in northern Wyoming went under this week.

Whoever wants to know something about me, they should look attentively at my pictures and there seek to recognise what I am and what I want.

Stupidity lies in wanting to draw conclusions.

Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.

Abstraction can provide stumbling blocks for people of strange intelligence.

Ne lisez pas comme les enfants lisent, pour vous amuser, ni comme les ambitieux lisent, pour vous instruire. Non. Lisez pour vivre.

There comes a point at which you stop writing and think all the more

There is a part of everything that remains unexplored, for we have fallen into the habit of remembering, whenever we use our eyes, what people before us have thought of the thing we are looking at. Even the slightest thing contains a little that is unknown. We must find it. To describe a blazing fire or a tree in a plain, we must remain before that fire or that tree until they no longer resemble for us any other tree or any other fire.

If you want to be happy, it is necessary not to be too intelligent.

En plongeant dans la personnalité des autres, il oublia la sienne, ce qui est la seule manière peut-être de n'en pas souffrir.

No, read in order to live.