Quotes About Insight

I wish one half the world were not fools, and the other half idiots.

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We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely. —E. O. Wilson

Odd, some might think. Why someone would need to travel so far to find oneself. Surely a look in the mirror would suffice, and wouldn't that be cheaper too? But the mirror lies, and the eyes that do the looking conspire too.

A friend is someone who can see through you and still enjoys the show.

No wise sayings today?" Tiana asked. Ms. Rose loved sharing nuggets of wisdom she said were passed down from her mother. The woman's brow lifted. "Actually, I do have one for you: Ti bwa ou pa wè, se li ki pete je ou . The twig you don't see is the one that puts out your eye." Tiana peered at the flowers Ms. Rose had handed her. "Are there twigs in here?" "Be cautious," the woman said. "It means to always be aware of your surroundings.

Once I believed that sooner or later I would come across a really wise person; today I couldn't even say what wisdom is.

statements line by line. If everything

Empirical" knowledge itself is of little benefit unless it awakens the inner perception of man as to his own situation, his potentialities, his risks, and his destiny

Las mujeres suelen pensar con una intuición superior a la inteligencia. Marga

Quisiera decirles, muchachos, que cada cual cuenta sólo aquello que conoce.

Experience is what you get while looking for something else.

Nadie se da cuenta al tener un libro en las manos, el esfuerzo, el dolor, la vigilia, la sangre que ha costado. El libro es, sin disputa, la obra mayor de la humanidad. — Dime qué lees y te diré quién eres

Entre los hombres hay algunos que tienen la preciosa facultad de adivinar el alma de las cosas. Se llaman artistas.

No se siente la verdad cuando está dentro de una misma.

No pretendemos presentar un capítulo de «conclusiones», porque en filosofía no hay conclusiones que puedan ser formuladas de otra manera que exponiendo el proceso. El contenido es el proceso.

I wish the whole world could see what I see. Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.

Wisdom too often never comes, so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.

Filosoof zijn is ni schrijve, mor is leve!

Without philosophy, history seems to me to be deaf and dumb.

History is made up of hundreds of correlations, and at best we manage to see a few of them. So let us not jump to conclusions on the basis of oversimple premises.

Ninguna cosa es más lejos de la verdad que la vulgar opinión. Nunca alegre vivirás, si por voluntad de muchos te riges. Porque éstas son conclusiones verdaderas, que cualquier cosa que el vulgo piensas, es vanidad; lo que habla, falsedad; lo que reprueba es bondad; lo que aprueba, maldad.

No one is privy to the final truth or understanding about anything.

Fear is the reflection of ignorance