Quotes About Insight

A problem well stated is a problem half solved.

Influence requires more intuition than intellect.

Se existe um segredo para o sucesso, ele consiste na capacidade de entender o ponto de vista do outro e enxergar não só com seus olhos, mas também com os olhos dele", disse Henry Ford.

Here is a method that deserves a whole chapter. Read history! Try to get the viewpoint of ten thousand years—and see how trivial YOUR troubles are, in terms of eternity!

You were not born with judgment. That comes only with experience

As Charles Kettering puts it: "A problem well stated is a problem half solved.

Here lies one who knew how to get around him men who were cleverer than himself.

Commitment is not sustained by confusion but by insight. The person who is uninformed or confused will inevitably be unstable and vulnerable in action, thought and feeling.

You know something when you are able to deal with it as it is on an appropriate basis of thought and experience.

Mystery" means, in the language of the New Testament, something that had long remained hidden but then came to be known for the first time. The

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Knowledge" in biblical language never refers to what we today call "head knowledge," but always to experiential involvement with what is known—to actual engagement with it.

Genius, it is said, is the ability to scrutinize the obvious.

Develop the habit of seeing the world through God's eyes.

God does not delight in having to always explain what his will is; he enjoys it when we understand

What is thinking? It is the activity of searching out what must be true, or cannot be true, in the light of given facts or assumptions. It extends the information we have and enables us to see the "larger picture"—to see it clearly and to see it wholly. And it undermines false or misleading ideas and images as well. It reveals their falseness to those who wish to know.

I believe that thinking about the problem … is your problem.

Sometimes, all you have to do is shift your perspective to see someone else's truth.

The truth can be glimpsed only through the eyes of death.

Authors, he thought. Even the sane ones are nuts.

Sometimes, divine revelation simply means adjusting your brain to hear what your heart already knows. Angels and Demons p. 484

Sometimes a change of perspective is all it takes to see the light.

We fear what we do not understand...