Quotes About Insight

Being smart is handy, but if you aren't mentally agile, it doesn't get you anywhere but stuck in your own fact-ruts.

He breaks off, and I gasp as, abruptly, what we're seeing makes perfect sense.

You love her," he said roughly. "That means you know her. When you love somebody you see inside them. Use your heart.

They hold a secret smile and a certain amused resignation. As if he has watched humanity's idiocies play out in front of him so many times that they have begun to Ã¢â'¬Â¦ not pain but perhaps perturb him. As if he wearies of watching the rats in the maze run into the same walls over and over.

When I was in high school, I used to hate that Sylvia Plath poem where she talked about knowing the bottom, that she knew it with her great taproot and that it was what everybody else feared, but she didn't, because she'd been there. I still hate it. But I get it now.

The animal has discovered, in me, a new resource, like a new water hole or berry patch. Thus it takes a new and intense interest in what I do. That opens up huge opportunities for understanding. (p.13)

The function of emotions is to tell us about our internal world, just as senses provide guidance in the external world.

cats had more emotional intelligence than many humans.

He looks me to pieces … I realize now that I have been glimpsed and corner-of-the-eyed before, by the Chief and my sister and the yawning tourists. But I have never actually been looked at. Not like this.

All things which greatly hurt me greatly teach me

You know what's sexy? A person who's been through a life challenge, and comes out with insights, more depth, and a fiery passion to face forward, forward, forward!

If you don't listen to your animal instincts, you are placing too much importance on knowledge thereby not being wise.

Step into my shoes follow my journey my mountains my valleys my surprise potholes and if you can keep going the way I keep going perhaps you'll understand my choices & strength.

View life with kindness and insight. Don't beat yourself up for things that happened in the past. Though some past situations may make you wonder why you did the things you did, stop to breathe and ask the better question: 'What did I learn?

Our fears are an amazing gift of the imagination... a way of glimpsing what might be the future when there's still time to influence how that future will play out.

Reading is not just an escape. It is access to a better way of life.

You can only make decisions with the information you have at the time

I have had my results for a long time: but I do not yet know how I am to arrive at them.

I had a terrible vision: I saw an encyclopedia walk up to a polymath and open him up.

One must read all writers twice - the good as well as the bad. The one kind will be recognized; the other, unmasked.

Clear thinking at the wrong moment can stifle creativity.

Hence insight may be regarded as the core of social knowledge. It is arrived at by being on the inside of the phenomenon to. be observed, or, as Charles H. Cooley put it, by sympathetic introspection. It is the participation in an activity that generates interest, purpose, point of view, value, meaning, and intelligibility, as well as bias.

Every view, and every object I studied attentively, by viewing them again and again on every side, for I was anxious to make a lasting impression of it on my imagination.

Stop looking at the walls, look out the window.