Quotes About Insight

what we see is not always what is. And what is, we often cannot see until we train our eyes to see it.

Poetry speaks slowly. My mother told me that. We are usually too much in a hurry." He sighed at this remembrance. "Hurried people miss many things. They see only what is right on top. . . ." His voice fell away.

Hurried people miss many things. They see only what is right on top. . .

The best fiction is history

Knowledge is a beautiful thing, but there are a few things I wish I didn't know.

Sometimes it's harder to notice a place you think you know well; you eyes glide over it, seeing it but not seeing it at all. It's almost as if familiarity gives you a kind of temporary blindness. I had to force myself to look harder and try to see beyond the concept of library that was so latent in my brain.

books have souls

You read and read and read and read," she said, "and then what?

There are a lot of surprising things in the library; a lot of things you don't think of when you try to imagine all of what a library might contain.

Sometimes it's harder to notice a place you think you know well; your eyes glide over it, seeing it but not seeing it at all. It's almost as if familiarity gives you a kind of temporary blindness.

The reading of a book was a journey. There was no need for souvenirs.

Quoting a letter by Charles F. Lummis]: books are the last things that any human being can afford to do without.

books are the last things that any human being can afford to do without.

Tranquility, compassion, and wisdom are the components of fearlessness, not power, control, and remaining unaffected.

Leadership Wisdom refers to authenticity, compassion, insight, discernment, selflessness, purpose-driven behavior, and making decisions for the greater good over the advancement of the self. We can only develop wisdom as we learn to let go of our defenses and act out of choice rather than defensiveness. Robertson, Susan . Real Leadership: Waken To Wisdom . The Books Factory. Kindle Edition.

That is really the direction in spiritual direction, as I understand it. As gently as possible, I try to say, It seems as though the light is coming from over there," and I point to it, hoping that I don't point in such a way that I block the person's view.

I follow the trail of tears that seems to lead to the heart's truth.

When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you.

Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.

The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.

Even when you know something bad will happen, you still might not see it coming.

at the center of every fairy tale lay a truth that gave the story its power.

Technology can do a great deal to make information gathering easier, but it can do little to simplify the gathering of wisdom.

When you read, you develop wisdom—or, in Mortimer Adler's words, "become enlightened." "To be informed," Adler writes in How to Read a Book, "is to know simply that something is the case. To be enlightened is to know, in addition, what it is all about.