Insight Quotes

"An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows" "I was a peripheral visionary. I could see the future, but only way off to the side." "A word to the wise is infuriating" "I was not proud of what I had learned but I never doubted that it was worth knowing" "The owl of Minerva begins its flight only with the coming of the dusk." "The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implication of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern, the condition of having imagination is to have a sense of life." "You can lead people to truth, but you can't make them understand it." "Hell is truth seen too late" "Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, but it is the farthest thing from it." "The more you know, the sadder you get." "Science gives us knowledge but only philosophy can give us wisdom" "Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way." "The more you know, the more you see." "The book is an oracle and a witness " "There are no easy answers but there are simple answers"