Insight Quotes

"Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one." "The doors of wisdom are never shut" "The more I see the less I know for sure" "Everything is clearer when you're in love" "Experience teaches only the teachable." "The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes" "The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark" "In the abundance of water, a fool is thirsty" "Wise is he who enjoys the show offered by the world." "Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life." "We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men." "To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle." "Know how to listen and you will profit even from those who talk badly." "It is much easier to suggest solutions when you don't know too much about the problem." "It's far better to foresee even without certainty than not to foresee at all." "The comic is the perception of the opposite; humor is the feeling of it." "Morality is temporary, wisdom is permanent" "The more clear an idea is, the more surely it is based on confusion." "The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it." "The truth is there is a world of difference between knowing something intellectually and knowing it by means of experiencing it."