Quotes About Insight

Even soul-force, when it is effective, destroys. Only those who have used it with eyes open, know how much more destructive it can be than the sword and the cannon.

Knowledge gropes but meets not Wisdom's face.

India saw from the beginning, and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never lost hold of the insight, that life cannot be rightly seen in the sole light, cannot be perfectly lived in the sole power of its externalities.

To deal with things knowledge of things is needed. To deal with people, you need insight, sympathy. To deal with yourself, you need nothing. Be what you are--conscious being--and don't stray away from yourself.

Wise is the one who learns from another´s mistakes. Less wise is the one who learns only from his own mistakes. The fool keeps making the same mistakes again and again and never learns from them.

This is what is expected of a leader — better perception, clear observation and graceful expression.

Understanding is the reward of faith.

Blindness itself commends the excellence of sight.

But what shall men do who cannot find anything wise to say, because they are interpreting foolish things?

When then things to come are said to be seen, it is not themselves which as yet are not (that is, which are to be), but their causes perchance or signs are seen, which already are.

For, as I know that I am, so I know this also, that I know.

It is no advantage to be near the light if the eyes are closed.

Believe me, you will find more lessons in the woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you what you cannot learn from masters.

To know much and taste nothing-of what use is that?

The Study of philosophy is not that we may know what men have thought, but what the truth of things is.

The light of faith makes us see what we believe.

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Science when well-digested is nothing but good sense and reason.

Vergessen wir nicht, dass auch uns die Bakterien - von der anderen Seite des Mikroskops - betrachten.

Den Blick in die Welt kann man mit einer Zeitung versperren.

W historii politycznej Polski nigdy nie gra?em jakiejkolwiek roli, nigdy nie by?em na scenie, ale cz?sto siedzia?em w pierwszym rz?dzie, obserwowa?em spektakl dok?adnie, a czasami udawa?o mi si? na chwil? zabrn?? za kulisy, zerkn?? na to lub owo, dojrze? szminkowanie i kostiumowanie.

The window to the world can be covered by a newspaper.

Thoughts, like fleas, jump from man to man, but they don't bite everybody.

It was like being a fly on the wall at a meeting. JACK WELCH ON HIS JOB AT AGE TWELVE AS A CADDY FOR LOCAL BUSINESSMEN AT A SALEM, MASSACHUSETTS, COUNTRY CLUB