Quotes About Insight

Thus, what we observe to be happening in the world says as much about ourselves as it does about the world. It reveals what we think is important, significant, valuable, and sacred, and what is irrelevant or useless too. Put another way, what we see reveals how we see.

Intuition often comes with a suddenness that is startling; it reveals the truth for which we are searching, so directly that it seems to come from a higher power.

There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it.

No less than the tourist, the writer of history profits from maps.

We learn more in our mountain experiences than on our mountaintops.

Discernment is the ability to judge a situation accurately—to see the full reality of a situation, relationship, experience, or circumstance. It is the capacity to understand accurately and clearly what is, to see the truth of things as they are from God's viewpoint.

Friend, when you understand why Jesus does certain things in your life, then you will develop true insight into how greatly He cares for you. God loves you profoundly—beyond what you can fathom.

Una vez más comprendí lo que Pablo quiere decir por esa paz que sobrepasa todo entendimiento.

Segundo, Dios quiere que conozcamos la verdad acerca de nosotros mismos.

Friend, when you understand why Jesus does certain things in your life, then you will develop true insight into how greatly He cares for you.

So I began to meditate on Scripture the way he taught me. That is, I wouldn't just read the Bible—I would ask questions. "Lord God, what are You saying to me? How do You want me to apply this to my life? What is it I'm supposed to learn, Father?" This has helped

Él hombre sin educación que sabe meditar en el Señor ha aprendido mucho más que aquel con mucha educación que no sabe meditar.

Many a true word is spoken in jest.

...for a writer humor is a rubber sword — it allows you to make a point without drawing blood.

To me, a comic says funny things. A humorist thinks funny things. But a humorist must not only think funny, he must listen funny... The best story tellers... are listeners and thinkers.

To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.

We have enough youth, how about a fountain of smart?

They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

The course of every intellectual, if he pursues his journey long and unflinchingly enough, ends in the obvious, from which the non-intellectuals have never stirred.

Intuition, my trustworthy friend...

Any increase in knowledge anywhere helps pave the way for an increase in knowledge everywhere.

Words are the indices of the mind.

It is while you are patiently toiling at little tasks that the meaning and shape of the great whole of life dawn upon you.

"Silent" and "listen" are spelled with the same letters.