Quotes About Insight

When I do things I shouldn't do, my mother says I need a new pair of glasses -- that I should be be looking differently at the choices I make.

I think my mother, more than anyone, knew the importance of inspiration. If it was occurring, you had to use it.

Fear is the mother of foresight.

I'm not a mom, but I think the word 'mother' is about wisdom.

An open mind leaves a chance for someone to drop a worthwhile thought in it.

The art of knowing is knowing what to ignore.

If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent

You cannot teach a person something he does not already know, you can only bring what he does know to his awareness.

Wise people learn when they can; fools learn when they must.

The day before something is a breakthrough, it's a crazy idea.

The more you do your homework, the more you're free to be intuitive. But you've got to put the work in.

Learn all you can from the mistakes of others. You won't have time to make them all yourself.

The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think.

When you talk, you repeat what you already know; when you listen, you often learn something.

The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real.

A fool learns nothing from a wise man; but a wise man learns from a fool.

Education is the ability to perceive the hidden connections between phenomena.

It is not the answers you give, but the questions you ask.

The only real valuable thing is intuition.

You learn as much from those who have failed as from those who have succeeded.

A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself.

Who makes us ignorant? We ourselves. We put our hands over our eyes and weep that it is dark.

A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.

We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.