Quotes About Insight

Attempting to get at truth means rejecting stereotypes and cliches.

Actions are always more complex and nuanced than they seem. We have to be willing to wrestle with paradox in pursuing understanding.

The ability to observe, and the ability to see the little things that seem trivial at first, may become amazingly important and meaningful.

It is the average (or, if you like, the consensus) of the local characteristics which enables him to sense the "grain" of the country, to plan his detours to find his way to his goal. First

The number of substitutes for fine and clean thinking the world provides positively gnaws at one's vitals.

I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.

What waits me on the shelves? I cannot guess, But feel the sure foreboding; there will cry A voice of human laughter and distress, A word that no one needs as much as I.

The purpose of education is to keep a culture from being drowned in senseless repetitions, each of which claims to offer a new insight.

That insight, that God is to be found not in the crisis but in our response to the crisis, is the key to understanding one of the most important passages in the entire Bible.

Religion is not primarily a set of beliefs, a collection of prayers, or a series of rituals. Religion is first and foremost a way of seeing. It can't change the facts about the world we live in, but it can change the way we see those facts, and that in itself can often make a real difference.

Many biblical verses are like inkblot tests, revealing more about us than about the text in question.

I make no manner of doubt that you threw a very diamond of truth at me, though you see it hit me so directly in the face that it wasn't exactly appreciated, at first.

Could I ever have loved you, had I not known you better than you know yourself?

I did not write it. (Uncle Tom's Cabin) God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.

Common sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they ought to be.

Most mothers are instinctive philosophers.

Strictly speaking, what one life sees no other can. Every individual, whether person, nation, or epoch, is an organ, for which there can be no substitute, constructed for the apprehension of truth.…

Writing derives from an accumulation of experience. It's as if you collect facts and observations over time, like a stone to stand on. From there, imagination takes over.

She didn't realise it, for a long time, and it wasn't until they were having dinner one evening that he said something that she found funny and she looked at him and thought, Yes. I know you. I know you

Don't charge by the hour. Charge by the years.

When companies discuss their problems, they talk about themselves. It's not ego at work. It's just that people talk about what they know, and what people know is their company. But what people really need to know—what you really need to know—is your customers and prospects. Get out, climb out, have someone pull you out of the tunnel.

People get smarter. The human brain has a potential for development. Some day it will grow big enough so that everybody will see and understand the truth, and then we won't act like a bunch of sheep, and then that wall separates the two sides of us will crumble, just like the wall of Jericho.

All you have to do is to make it your business to find out what people want ~ instead of assuming it, instead of telling them. The one rule that sums up the job to be done ~ the one formula that is fully in harmony with the real world ~ the secret of success is: Find out what people want and help them get it!

You want people walking away from the conversation with some kernel of wisdom or some kind of impact.