Quotes About Insight

There are essentially two things that will make us wiser: the books we read and the people we meet.

When I walk the fields I am oppressed now and then with an innate feeling that everything I see has a meaning, if I could but understand it.

Sound advice comes from veterans of pain.

Someone has said, Education is going from an unconscious to conscious awareness of one's ignorance. I agree.

God's voice isn't all that difficult to hear. In fact, you almost have to be closing your eyes and stopping your ears to miss it.

Aprendamos esta lección de Nehemías: usted nunca alivia la carga, a menos que antes haya sentido la presión en su propia alma. Usted no será nunca usado por Dios para llevar bendición, hasta que Dios le haya abierto los ojos y le haya hecho ver las cosas como son.4

Humans: such a brilliant model of emotional self-awareness.

I've suffered for what I know, so I'm not going to let you off the hook with a simple one-liner. I think you deserve a detailed explanation.

For now, the key insight is that changing the number of chips on the table does not change the value of what's in the shoebox, which is all anyone cares about at the end of the night.

The irony is that more data can often present less clarity.

The world is producing more and more data, ever faster and faster. Yet, as the New York Times has noted, "Data is merely the raw material of knowledge."3* Statistics is the most powerful tool we have for using information to some meaningful end

New York Times has noted, "Data is merely the raw material of knowledge.

Statistical analysis is the detective work that crafts the raw data into some meaningful conclusion.

If we can figure everything out, if we can be so smart that we can fit everything into some sort of a plan or order, a complete intellectual understanding, then perhaps we won't be threatened.

Now that I had a better understanding of why I was so pissed off, I could finally do something about it.

The world's most funniest and easiest thing is to give an advice...

That we are surrounded by deep mysteries is known to all but the incurably ignorant.

The triumph of the written word is often attained when the writer achieves union and trust with the reader, who then becomes ready to be drawn into unfamiliar territory, walking in borrowed literary shoes so to speak, toward a deeper understanding of self or society, or of foreign peoples, cultures, and situations.

Wisdom is like a goatskin bag; every man carries his own.

And immediately Okonkwo's eyes were opened and he saw the whole matter clearly. Living fire begets cold, impotent ash. He sighed again, deeply.

What a man does not know is greater than he.

Obierika was a man who thought about things.

The triumph of the written word is often attained when the writer achieves union and trust with the reader, who then becomes ready to be drawn deep into unfamiliar territory, walking in borrowed literary shoes so to speak, toward a deeper understanding of self or society, or of foreign peoples, cultures, and situations.

Only the hand fails to throw as straight as the eye sees.