Quotes about Insight

If I can't picture it, I can't understand it.

If I can't picture it, I can't understand it.

Somebody who reads only newspapers and at best books of contemporary authors looks to me like an extremely near-sighted person who scorns eyeglasses. He is completely dependent on the prejudices and fashions of his times, since he never gets to see or hear anything else. And what a person thinks on his own without being stimulated by the thoughts and experiences of other people is even in the best case rather paltry and monotonous.

If people only talked about what they understood, Earth would be a very quiet place.

Ideas come from God.

Ideas come from God.

To see ourselves as others see us is a most salutary gift. Hardly less important is the capacity to see others as they see themselves.

Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.

You'll have a better understanding of what was actually done if you start by knowing what had to be done - what always and everywhere has to be done by anyone who has a clear idea about what's what.

Other people can't make you see with their eyes. At the best they can only encourage you to use your own.

Wisdom never puts enmity anywhere.

It begins easily for the sake of poor imbeciles like me; but it goes on, it goes on, more and more fully and subtly and abstrusely and embracingly.