Quotes About Insight

Leadership is familiar, but not well understood.

To know a man's library is, in some measure, to know a man's mind.

I borrowed his brightness and used it to see my way, and then gradually, from the habit of looking at the world as he illuminated it, the light in my own mind rekindled.

How little we know, I thought, of the people we live amongst.

Until you opened it, the book was nothing that an untrained eye would look twice at.

The greatest wisdom often consists in ignorance.

Today, if you are not confused, you are not thinking clearly.

All I know about humor is that I don't know anything about it.

Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.

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

It was a year when Frankie thought about the world. And she did not see it as a round school globe, with the countries neat and different-coloured. She thought of the world as huge and cracked and loose and turning a thousand miles an hour.

A woman is more influenced by what she divines than by what she is told.

A writer is rarely so well inspired as when he talks about himself.

Trusting our intuition often saves us from disaster.

Intuition ... appears to be the extrasensory perception of reality.

Instinct is the nose of the mind.

We each need to let our intuition guide us, and then be willing to follow that guidance directly and fearlessly.

Spend time every day listening to what your muse is trying to tell you.

You cannot know what you cannot feel.

I make all my decisions on intuition. I throw a spear into the darkness. That is intuition. Then I must send an army into the darkness to find the spear. That is intellect.

Nothing reaches the intellect before making its appearance in the senses.

Well-bred instinct meets reason halfway.

Good instincts usually tell you what to do long before your head has figured it out.

Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.