Quotes About Insight

the premise is that real people who have been through a challenging experience are extraordinary sources of advice.

Karl Pillemer

Robert Owen's was a true insight: market economy if left to evolve according to its own laws would create great and permanent evils.

We can know more than we can tell.

Anything worth reading is not only worth reading twice, but worth reading again and again. If a book is worthwhile, then you will always be able to make new discoveries in it and find things in it that you didn't notice before, even though you have read it many times.

Haydi mast?rl?lar ve doktoral?lar, k?z??t?r?n ortal???! (Goethe, Faust)

Two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads to truth and second, the courage to follow this faint light wherever it may lead.

Principles and rules are intended to provide a thinking man with a frame of reference.

When I was a child, I thought as a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child but when I grew up I put away childish things; for now we see through a glass darkly but then face to face!

dangerous trade, and she knew there was a bevy of analysts

Depth is a big goal for all believers, because life as we know it makes no sense without it. Without it we're all lost souls, left to wander as we wonder if that's all there is. While with insight we find out very best self, with depth we find our very best God. Eventually wisdom comes, embraces us, and shows us both are really one and the same.

Whatever moves you bears divine insight.

By the grace of that God all disappointments, failures, mistakes, even tragedies become part of the winding path of our lives, given as turning points, and loaded with divine insight - should we care and have the strength to see.

A certain light was beginning to dawn dimly within her,—the light which, showing the way, forbids it.

You seem to have an uncommon knowledge of young people. May I ask if you are, or have been, a teacher?" "Oh, no!" Mrs. Carey remarked with a smile, "I am just a mother,--that's all! Good night.

Reason is the measure of all things.

it crossed Farren's mind that although death seemed big, life was even bigger

Until a thing was seen, could it be said to exist? And if his eye through the telescope were the one that brought a certain star into existence, did not that make him a creator?

Until you could put yourself at some point beyond your own world, looking back at it, you would never see how everything worked together.

One of the things about being a grown-up is realizing that what you see is only a fraction of what's really happening. And you become less keen on judging people.

It is better to listen to a crow that lives in trees than to a learned man who lives only in ideas.

Knowledge often spoils devotion.

I talked to ex-wives of musicians of the '70s for research. They're the funniest people in the world, yet there is this sad, beautiful thing in their eyes that says they've seen more than they could ever possibly tell you.

This was the first one who watched me, listened, and got it. And walked out. Not because she wasn't interested. Not because she was playing a game. It was because she understood me. She was the only one.