Hermann Weyl Quotes

It's very hard to know what wisdom is.

Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

If we think about the obvious long enough, it dissolves.

Sometimes attaining the deepest familiarity with a question is our best substitute for actually having the answer.

I see too deep and too much.

The farther reason looks the greater is the haze in which it loses itself.

Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.

Imagination is the wide-open eye which leads us always to see truth more vividly.

Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind

I can explain it to you but I can't understand it for you.

I like cutting through complexity and trying to get to the kernel of an idea.

Sometimes it's easier to understand things than it is to figure them out

I wanted to understand things and then be free of them. I needed to learn how to telescope things, ideas. Things were too big to see all at once, like all the books in the library-everything laying around on all the tables. You might be able to put it all into one paragraph or into one verse of a song if you could get it right.

You either get it or you don't. Become one of those who get it.

Truth is simple, requiring neither study nor art.

The golden guess is morning-star to the full round of truth.

Deep is the well of truth and long does it take to know what has fallen into its depths.

The moment you know you know you know.

Knowledge, idea, belief stands in the way of wisdom.

You can recognize truth by its beauty and simplicity. When you get it right, it is obvious that it is right -- at least if you have any experience -- because usually what happens is that more comes out than goes in.

I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day.

The key to good decision making is not knowledge. It is understanding. We are swimming in the former. We are desperately lacking in the latter.

Commonsense is the wick of the candle.

By tomorrow at this time, I think you're going to have a much better idea of what crazy is. -- Ev Hillman