Quotes About Insight

Bartlett tried to understand what Tyson was saying. October 15 was 196 days earlier.

The felicities one is the one who learns by the tribulation of others and does not learn through his tribulation.

Our lives can only be lived forward and understood backwards. Living a life and understanding it occupy different dimensions.

Guessing what the pitcher is going to throw is 80 percent of being a successful hitter. The other 20 percent is just execution.

Far from minimizing biblical truth, metaphors serve as magnifying glasses that identify truth we might otherwise miss.

I've watched through his eyes, I've listened through his ears, and I tell you he's the one.

Verstehen braucht seine Zeit. Daran solltest du immer denken.

Alle wesentlichen Dinge sind einfach, wenn man sie erst einmal begriffen hat. Schwierig ist nur der Weg, den man bis dahin gehen muss.

Wissen ohne Erfahrung taugt nicht viel.

I tell you what, sometimes you get so obstinate you have to be gently forced to see where your happiness lies.

If error is corrected whenever it is recognized as such, the path of error is the path of truth

Such a person can see without "pre-judice", that is, without judging in advance; he will judge only on the basis of what he has really seen for himself

Maximus remained a child of his time, a disciple of his master. But the fact that he was able to develop his own basic insight, in spite of such influences, makes him one of the greatest thinkers in Christian intellectual history.

They try to reveal revelation to themselves. For the grace of the Holy Spirit never destroys the capabilities of nature. Just the opposite: it makes nature, which has been weakened by unnatural habit, mature and strong enough once again to function in a natural way and leads it upward toward insight into the divine.

Wonder—the enthusiastic ardor for the sublimity of being, for its worthiness to be an object of knowledge—promises to become the point of departure for genuine insight only where it has reached the stage in which the subject, overwhelmed by the object, has, as it were, fused into a single point or into nothing… like the movement of hope and love toward God, which is genuine and selfless only where it has assumed the attitude of pure worship of God for his own sake.

Freud büyük bir insan. Ama büyük bir insan?n yar?m yamalak anla??lmas? da çok tehlikelidir.

There is the old catch-22 line that a mentally unstable person can't know, as per their illness, that they are unstable. But that was wrong. You can and do have the insight to see your own crazy.

Eyes blinded by the fog of things cannot see truth. Ears deafened by the din of things cannot hear truth. Brains bewildered by the whirl of things cannot think truth. Hearts deadened by the weight of things cannot feel truth. Throats choked by the dust of things cannot speak truth.

Here and there among men, there are those who pause in the hurried rush to listen to the call of a life that is more real… He who sees and hears too much is cursed for a dreamer, a fanatic, or a fool, by the mad mob who, having eyes, see not, ears and hear not, and refuse to understand…

We read, frequently if not unknowingly, in search of a mind more original than our own.

We read to find ourselves, more fully and more strangely than otherwise we could hope to find.

I am naive enough to read incessantly because I cannot, on my own, get to know enough people profoundly enough.

All writers are to some extent inventors, describing people as they would like to see them in life.

Reading is an intimate act, perhaps more intimate than any other human act. I say that because of the prolonged (or intense) exposure of one mind to another.