Quotes About Insight

James A. Connor

Poets are simply people who see things two ways. Like children, as if they had never seen them before. Like old men, as if they would never see them again.

seem to understand. With three walled

with that insight which comes to a man only once or twice in his lifetime, allowing him to see ahead into the structure of the years.

Remember the story of what your god Yahweh said not far from here? 'Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature. Yahweh seeth not as man seeth, for man looketh on the outward appearance, but Yahweh looketh on the heart.

Hers was the heart-hunger that has sent people of all ages in search of new thoughts and deeper perceptions.

but she possessed what was better than beauty: an absolutely realistic evaluation of life.

but on this night he proved that he could do something that none of his companions could: he could look at the evidence planted in the universe and from it derive a new concept, and a greater thing than this no mind can accomplish.

When you seek, you find things you did not anticipate.

Scarcity brings clarity.

The cynic sees the hat and coat, and thinks he sees the man. The sympathetic seer sees the man, and is not concerned with the hat and coat.

Nothing is mine to claim or to command, But all is mine to know and understand.

No situation can be difficult of itself; it is the lack of insight into its intricacies, and the want of wisdom in dealing with it, which give rise to the difficulty. Immeasurable, therefore, is the gain of a difficulty transcended.

He who earnestly meditates first perceives a truth

All that you positively know is contained in your own experience; all that you ever will know must pass through the gateway of experience, and so become part of yourself.

which discovery is totally a matter of application, self-analysis, and experience.

As evil is the direct outcome of ignorance, so, when the lessons of evil are fully learned, ignorance passes away, and wisdom takes its place.

Reading is the best return on investment. You have to live your entire life in order to know one life. But with reading you can know 1000s of people's lives for almost no cost. What a great return!

People are walking around blind. If you are the one who can see, you will be able to navigate through this new world.

Opinions are like money. No matter how much you know, there's always someone who knows more.

Ultimately, the best speakers are the ones who have put 10,000 hours into listening.

If anything, diversify not across stocks but across the smart people you follow. That is real diversification instead of "Yahoo Finance diversification.

Ideas are the dark matter of the universe. We know it's there, but only those "in the know" can see them.

Each excuse let me learn about myself, let me discover entire worlds of surprising possibilities. Each one led me to more and more love.