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Letter "I" » insight
«It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones.»
Author: Alexander Solzhenitsyn
| About:
Emotion,
Mistakes,
Selfishness,
Truth
| Keywords:
accords, comfortable, course, easiest, emotions, especially, insight, most especially, selfish
«May you have the hindsight to know where you've been, The foresight to know where you are going, And the insight to know when you have gone too far»
«Nothing is so powerful as an insight into human nature . . . what compulsions drive a man, what instincts dominate his action . . . if you know these things about a man you can touch him at the core of his being.»
Author: William Bernbach
| About:
Action,
Humanity
| Keywords:
compulsions, core, dominate, Human Touch, insight, instincts, The Core
«Reason does not work instinctively, but requires trial, practice, and instruction in order to gradually progress from one level of insight to another»
Author: Immanuel Kant
(Philosopher)
| About:
Reason
| Keywords:
gradually, insight, instinctively, instruction, trial, work in progress
«Peace of mind happens to a man only after he has developed deep insight, only after he starts seeing the things in the right perspective. »
«Religions that teach brotherly love have been used as an excuse for persecution, and our profoundest scientific insight is made into a means of mass destruction.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Religion
| Keywords:
brotherly, brotherly love, insight, persecution, profoundest
«Punctuality is a quality the need of which is bound up with social co-operation. It has nothing to do with the relation of the soul to God, or with mystic insight, or with any of the matters with which the more elevated and spiritual moralists are co»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Punctuality
| Keywords:
bound up, co, elevated, insight, moralist, moralists, mystic, operation, social relations
«QUIXOTIC, adj. Absurdly chivalric, like Don Quixote. An insight into the beauty and excellence of this incomparable adjective is unhappily denied to him who has the misfortune to know that the gentleman's name is pronounced Ke-ho-tay.When ignorance from out of our lives can banish Philology, 'tis folly to know Spanish. --Juan Smith»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
absurdly, adj, adjective, adjectives, banish, chivalric, Don, Don Juan, Don Quixote, incomparable, insight, Juan, K.E., Ke, philology, pronounced, quixotic, smith, smiths, Spanish, Tay, unhappily
«I do not hesitate to read all good books in translations. What is really best in any book is translatable -- any real insight or broad human sentiment.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
broad, hesitate, Hesitated, hesitating, insight, Real Book, sentiment, translatable, translations
«Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.»
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