Quotes About Insight

If you can understand human behavior, it can't hurt you nearly as much.

People only see as far as they are able and the rest of the truth is lost on them.

Sometimes the things you search far and wide for are right under your nose.

There is a French expression: "Tout comprendre c'est tout pardonner." To understand all is to forgive all.

They love to learn. And teaching is a wonderful way to learn. About people and how they tick. About what you teach. About yourself. And about life.

When you're lying on your deathbed, one of the cool things to say is, 'I really explored myself.' T

We need to ponder such events, ask to have their meaning revealed to us, and allow ourselves to recognize that we have been touched by the transpersonal world.

No matter how painful it is to let go of self-justification, the result teaches us something deeply important about ourselves and can bring the peace of insight and self-acceptance.

Being alone gave me a chance to process what my senses took in without having to factor in other people's opinions.

Better a witty fool than a foolish wit,' sir.

As best I could tell, Americans had little ability to learn from history. We were doomed to repeat the past, again and again.

The book is man's best invention so far.

I never needed eyes to see — never. I simply needed vision and belief.

He felt blind and deaf, the way he did when he was close to a good idea but couldn't tap into it. He'd told Lizzie about that feeling once, and Lizzie had said, "That just means you aren't very smart, Reeve. Smart people have good ideas without having to be blind and deaf first.

A story too many times told is a dish with-out salt. ---Rose Wilder Lane

It is possible to know people. They show you who they are. You just have to be looking.

Yeah, I don't have a Yale degree but my bullshit detector is excellent. Top drawer, even.

There's nothing more annoying than good advice from someone who makes a lot of bad decisions.

When people show you who they are, it is your job to pay attention.

Now there are elements of our dynamic coming slowly into view, like a photograph in a darkroom.

Sometimes we all need a poem.

Insight," he said, "is almost always a rearrangement of fact.

All you had of a person was what they showed you.

Learn to trust what you cannot see far more than what you can see.