Quotes About Insight

Science is not just the search for the truth," he said. "It's the search for purpose.

it is a warning to those who would be warned and a lesson to those who would learn.

The past has left its traces on the world, and we only have to know how to read them.

Writing let you look at your thoughts in a way you couldn't if you were just talking, and having seen them, you could improve them, make them stronger and more elaborate. ·

When Janice had spoken of the strength she had as an afflicted person, her message was rare, but now that she's eyeless, her message is commonplace.

since I already know it would work, and it wouldn't illuminate any new gestalts.

if you want to create the common sense that comes from twenty years of being in the world, you need to devote twenty years to the task. You can't assemble an equivalent collection of heuristics in less time; experience is algorithmically incompressible.

She sees that Derek has a very different idea of high expectations than she has. More than that, she realizes that his is actually the better one. "You're right," she says, after a pause.

experience isn't merely the best teacher; it's the only teacher. If she's learned anything raising Jax, it's that there are no shortcuts; if you want to create the common sense that comes from twenty years of being in the world, you need to devote twenty years to the task. You can't assemble an equivalent collection of heuristics in less time; experience is algorithmically incompressible.

There are no shortcuts. If you want to create the common sense that comes from twenty years of being in the world, you need to devote twenty years to the task... experience is algorithmically incompressible.

Just as we grow to understand the purpose of customs that seemed pointless to us in our youth,

Sometimes even bad advice can point a man in the right direction.

How can this experience I am now having support the awakening of greater clarity and compassion in my life?

In every sphere of social interaction, that hermeneutic leap—that ability to put yourself in the mind frame of the other—is a virtue and a blessing.

Listening, not jargon, is the path into the heart of music. And if we listen at a deep enough level, we enter into the magic of the song - no degrees or formal credentials required. [...] [C]areful listening can demystify virtually all of the intricacies and marvels of jazz. [...] [T]he people who first gave us jazz did so without much formal study - and, in some instances, with none at all. But they knew how to listen.

as your dog becomes more self-actualized, he may hold up the mirror for you, and the face you see can be humbling.

The eye contains the world, in a space no bigger than a baby's fist.

What happened on the way, who I met, all that was incidental. I had not quite realized that the interruptions were the journey.

It is possible to be well-educated and still not understand life. 

Proverbs 18:2 speaks to this issue with penetrating insight: "A fool finds no pleasure in understanding but delights in airing his own opinions.

We tend to worry more about the "what" of behavior than the "why".

Your greatest need is to understand deep truths from the Bible. Solid parenting skills are built on solid truth.

The whole life lies in the verb seeing.

I consider our music a catalyst, something that might spark a thought or a question.