Quotes About Insight

They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

It is a great advantage for us to be able to consult someone who knows us, so that we may learn to know ourselves.

many people are good at talking and bad at understanding

As I see it, we shall never succeed in knowing ourselves unless we seek to know God: let

My old man was a walking, talking master class. But in the end, the main thing I learned—the best thing—was never to bring a knife to a gunfight.

As a couples therapist, I have three sources of information: what the partners report about themselves and each other, how they behave in front of me, and how I feel witnessing their behavior.

She calls it relational heroism—that moment when every muscle and nerve in your body is screaming to do the same old, but through raised consciousness, insight, discipline, and grace, you lift yourself off your accustomed track and deliberately place yourself on another track.

You teach what you want to learn.

Art is the struggle to understand.

Listen to the little voice of doubt only if it has something insightful or smart to say, not if it's just spouting fear.

Any proverbs about weather are doubly true during a storm.

Sometimes we must unfocus our way to clarity.

Did you really run into a monster on your path, or just a mirror?

I may be dumb, but I'm not stupid.

He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.

Knowledge is a destination. Truth, the journey.

Ever learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth" (2 Timothy 3:7)

Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.

Theory is meaningless to a genius.

These handwritten words in the pages of my journal confirm that from an early age I have experienced each encounter in my life twice: once in the world, and once again on the page.

The first reaction to truth is hatred.

Having eyes, but not seeing beauty; having ears, but not hearing music; having minds, but not perceiving truth; having hearts that are never moved and therefore never set on fire. These are the things to fear, said the headmaster.

Down through the ages and in the whole world, Watt and Newton cannot have been the only ones to notice the steam from a boiling kettle or observe an apple fall. Having eyes, but not seeing beauty; having ears, but not hearing music; having minds, but not perceiving truth; having hearts that are never moved and therefore never set on fire. These are the things to fear, said the headmaster.

Good judgment comes from experience, and a lotta that comes from bad judgment.