Quotes about Insight
All the mistakes I make arise from forsaking my own station and trying to see the object from another person's point of view.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Never read a book that is not a year old.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Years teach much which the days never knew.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
He then learns that in going down into the secrets of his own mind, he has descended into the secrets of all minds.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our eyes are holden that we cannot see things that stare us in the face, until the hour arrives when the mind is ripened; then we behold them, and the time when we saw them not is like a dream.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
a good reader makes a good book
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The ancient precept, "Know thyself," and the modern precept, "Study nature," become at last one maxim.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Genius is religious.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
What's a book? Everything or nothing. The eye that sees it all.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is a property in the horizon which no man has but he whose eye can integrate all parts, that is, the poet.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson