Quotes About Insight

I always get the best advice from myself.

Books are our windows on the world. They permit us to safely experience other lives and ways of thinking and feeling. Books give us a glimmer of the complexity and wonder of life. All this, the censor would deny us.

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Predicting correctly is the definition of wisdom.

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

The only thing new in the world is the history you don't know.

The best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

Study men, not historians.

The only thing new in the world is the history you do not know.

I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all.

It may behoove you to learn why you do what you do,

What you know about the people whom you know at all well is truly amazing, even though you have never formulated it.

Give me a one-handed Economist. All my economists say 'on hand...', then 'but on the other...

The next generation never learns anything from the previous one until it's brought home with a hammer. I've wondered why the next generation can't profit from the generation before but they never do until they get knocked in the head by experience.

Always nice to have an officer who can see past the end of his beard

A book can transform your life and add new dimensions to the way you think.

Is it possible, in the final analysis, for one human being to achieve perfect understanding of another? We can invest enormous time and energy in serious efforts to know another person, but in the end, how close can we come to that person's essence? We convince ourselves that we know the other person well, but do we really know anything important about anyone?

A good book, the most important resource in the world.

there is one quality that sets truly great managers apart from the rest: They discover what is unique about each person and then capitalize on it.

leaders who do undertake a voyage of personal understanding and development can transform not only their own capabilities but also those of their companies.

Travel is like an endless university. You never stop learning.

Pointing out the comic elements of a situation can bring a sense of proportion and perspective to what might otherwise seem an overwhelming problem.

He who knows others is wise; He who knows himself is enlightened. TAO TE CHING (600 B.C.E.)