Quotes About Insight

See it?" ... "Yeah." ... "How in the world did you see that in the first place?" "Don't know." "It's hard to make out." "Give it about ten minutes..." So we waited. Trying not to look at it so much that it lost all meaning. Like a word you say over and over until you're only hearing what it sounds like and you've forgotten what it means.

Sometimes good judgment comes from experience, and a lotta that comes from bad judgment." "Doesn't seem right.

when I looked up, the world got a lot bigger. That's one thing Unc did from the start—he made the world a lot bigger.

Any clod can have the facts having opinions is an art.

Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.

Unstructured chat with such friends has helped me understand Mrs Thatcher, the woman. (page xxvi)

As knowledge increases, wonder deepens.

As knowledge increases, wonder deepens. (Thanks Joe P. for the quote)

A writer should read until he is filled to the brim and like a pitcher which is over-filled over flows. And then he should write.

Knowledge is the harvest of attention

One sees more clearly in the fog because one has to look harder.

She took him by the ears and blew into his nostrils to give him a start, then looked into his eyes to see what she had surprised there.

Jimi had an extraordinary sense of self-awareness and an uncanny ability to use music to express emotional truths.

Learning more truth is a poor and cheap substitute for stopping and putting into action the truth already learned

A joke was the best barometer for mental weather.

In the dark to see, you ass-scratchers! In the dark to see.

The commonplace is miraculous if rightly seen, if recognized.

Much of the wisdom of one age, is the folly of the next.

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is the knowledge of our own ignorance.

We are all at times unconscious prophets.

The best way in the world to deceive believers is to cloak a message in religious language and declare that it conveys some new insight from God.

Now it is evident that a little insight into the customs of every people is necessary to insure a kindly communication this, joined with patience and kindness, will seldom fail with the natives of the interior.

I believe in the discipline of mastering the best that other people have ever figured out. I don't believe in just sitting down and trying to dream it all up yourself. Nobody's that smart.