Insight Quotes

"All great truths begin as blasphemies." "The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it." "Where is wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is knowledge we have lost in information?" "Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight." "When you pay attention to boredom it gets unbelievably interesting." "Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of, education" "Nobody is gonna pour truth into your brain. It's something you have to find out for yourself" "The essence of genius is to know what to overlook." "Listen deep enough, you always hear something" "We do not learn from experience... we learn from reflecting on experience" "Literature is news that stays news." "The greatest scholars are not the wisest men" "The best books... are those that tell you what you know already." "Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it." "Try to be one of those on whom nothing is lost" "Nothing in life is to be feared; it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less." "Knowledge is not for knowing: knowledge is for cutting" "The only people who see the whole picture are the ones who step out of the frame" "Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge" "Much learning does not teach understanding"