Quotes About Insight

No man is so brilliant that he can work out everything for himself, so that the wisdom of ages has nothing useful to tell him. To imagine otherwise is to indulge in the most egotistical of hubris.

In order to have wisdom we must have ignorance.

A thought will color a world for us.

Only in rare instances and with rare individuals does there seem to be any guiding light from within.

Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.

Outward judgment often fails, inward judgment never.

The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.

The books that help you most are those which make you think the most. A great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.

The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most.

It tires me to talk to rich men. You expect a man of millions, the head of a great industry, to be a man worthhearing; but as a rule they don't know anything outside their own business.

Nine tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.

We] all need more than anything else to know human nature, to know the needs of the human soul; and they will find this nature and these needs set forth as nowhere else by the great imaginative writers, whether of prose or of poetry.

Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.

I am a part of everything I have read

I am a part of everything that I have read.

Nothing we ever imagined is beyond our powers, only beyond our present self-knowledge.

My wife is beginning to instruct me on means to retrieve dreams, and bit by bit, it does seem to be working.

television wears away the capacity to be astonished'.

I have chosen to write about women, because I am not one myself, and because I have always preferred to write about subjects which do not tempt me to be so arrogant as to believe that I can ever fully understand them, but above all because many women seem to me to be looking at life with fresh eyes, and their autobiographies, in various forms, are the most original part of contemporary literature

as they say, a Cretan is attacking a Cretan" (quod dici solet, Cretensis incidit in Cretensem); that is, "it takes a thief to catch a thief," or "it takes one to know one

He had shrewd, on the spot judgement about human nature. Good sense with good manners and the practice of contentment made up in his view a large part of wisdom.

My old teacher's definition of poetry is an attempt to understand.

Here is another great contribution of the low-hanging fruit. You and many other people get to see what is working or not working on a relatively small scale. With this collective insight and wisdom, you are able to proceed more wisely with the larger change later. You get greater

Prayerful Commitment 1 God, open my eyes that I might see my church as You see it. Let me see where change needs to take place, even if it is painful to me. And use me, I pray, to be an instrument of that change whatever the cost.