Quotes about Insight

Combinatory play seems to be the essential feature in productive thought.

Proper teaching is recognized with ease. You can know it without fail because it awakens within you that sensation which tells you this is something you have always known.

All I have learned, I learned from books.

Learning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense; a substitute for true knowledge.

Many useful and valuable books lie buried in shops and libraries, unknown and unexamined, unless some lucky compiler opens them by chance, and finds an easy spoil of wit and learning.

There's a cure for aging that no one talks about. It's called learning.

Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.

Good judgement is the result of experience and experience the result of bad judgement.

It made me think of the way so many of us live our lives. We can see what we want, and nearly kill ourselves trying to get it in a way that's not working. Meanwhile, if we just stopped, got quiet for a minute or two, and looked at things a little differently, we'd notice the door to what we want being held open for us by the nice lady in the bathrobe across the room. Then all we'd have to do is fly through it.

As the poet William Blake so eloquently stated: "If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.

Take warning and begone! It's a kindness to let you have a glimpse of her genuine disposition.

All true histories contain instruction.