Quotes About Insight

said: "People who can put themselves in the place of other people, who can understand the workings of their minds, need never worry about what the future has in store for them.

Si hay un secreto del éxito —dijo Henry Ford— reside en la capacidad para apreciar el punto de vista del prójimo y ver las cosas desde ese punto de vista así como del propio.

When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books You will be reading meanings.

Have you noticed that the narrower the view the more you can see? For the first time I understand how old ladies can sit on their porches for years.

A great scientist once said that genius consists not in making great discoveries but in seeing the connection between small discoveries.

A note for physicians: if you listen carefully to what patients say, they will often tell you not only what is wrong with them but also what is wrong with you.

kids now don't have sense enough to know what they don't know.

Genius lies not in making the great discoveries, but in seeing the connections between the smaller ones...

A dying king, said Sir Thomas More, is apt to be wiser than a healthy king.

Knowledge of truth is not often reached by the processes of reason. It was due to a spiritual insight.

that books were mirrors, reflective in sometimes unpredictable ways.

sometimes when you go looking for what you want, you run right into what you need.

Joy said she hadn't really understood the meaning of life until Tyffanie had come along, but now she understood it perfectly. Well, great, I felt like saying. Make sure you share the news with Plato and Kierkegaard and all those other philosophers who'd banged their heads against the wall, trying to figure things out.

The point is this: that the stream of memory may lead you to the river of understanding. And understanding, in turn, may be a tributary to the river of forgiveness.

The irony, he said,...is that now that I'm this blind man, it's clearer to me now than it's ever been before. What that line? 'Was blind but now I see...

Writing about themselves] gives them wings, so that they can rise above the confounding maze of their lives and, from that perspective, begin to see the patterns and dead ends of their pasts, and a way out. That's the funny thing about mazes; what's baffling on the ground begins to make sense when you can begin to rise above it, the better to understand your history and fix yourself.

Her shut-eyed smile transformed itself into something else: the smile of someone brave and knowing, someone whose pain had made her wise.

I usually learn more from the situations I hate than the ones I love, you know?

to open his eyes. But Dr. Shaw

Sometimes the closer we got to a situation, the less clear it looked.

I cannot be awake, for nothing looks to me as it did before, or else I am awake for the first time, and all before has been a mean sleep.

Stop this day and night with me and you shall possess the origin of all poems, You shall possess the good of the earth and sun.... there are millions of suns left, You shall no longer take things at second or third hand.... nor look through the eyes of the dead.... nor feed on the spectres in books, You shall not look through my eyes either, nor take things from me, You shall listen to all sides and filter them from yourself.

You shall no longer take things at second or third hand, not look through the eyes of the dead, nor feed on the spectres in books. You shall not look through my eyes either, nor take things from me, you shall listen to all sides and filter them from yourself.

The poet is individual—he is complete in himself: the others are as good as he; only he sees it, and they do not.