Quotes About Insight

Wisdom is not a knowledge. Wisdom is all the knowledge one has, speaking in its own way, telling the mind things that are beyond knowing.

The only true voyage, the only Fountain of Youth," recited Orphu, "would be found not in traveling to strange lands but in having different eyes, in seeing the universe with the eyes of another person, of a hundred others, and seeing the hundred universes each of them sees, which each of them is.

For those who do not write and who never have been stirred by the creative urge, talk of muses seems a figure of speech, a quaint conceit, but for those of us who live by the Word, our muses are as real and necessary as the soft clay of language which they help to sculpt.

Poetry is only secondarily about words. Primarily, it is about truth.

I nodded, understanding nothing.

Her eyes are open but she does not see.

Even places of power are useless unless you're prepared to bring something to them. And I don't mean just the things we brought—they're to the real sacrament what the lump of bread is to the Eucharist. Then, if you come away the same person you were, you know it wasn't really a place of power.

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I know certain truths about life.

Reading is an exercise in empathy. To read is to enter another world in a way different from any other art form.

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It's wonderful to be loved but its profound to be understood.

This is a work of nonfiction.

A psychoanalytic phrase—"unthought known"—became my instrument of illumination as I poked and prodded at my history with my parents. The psychoanalyst who coined it, Christopher

You will become clever through your mistakes. —German proverb

Man is a short-sighted creature, sees but a very little way before him; and as his passions are none of his best friends, so his particular affections are generally his worst counselors.

1. Knowing one's emotions. Self-awareness—recognizing a feeling as it happens—is the keystone of emotional intelligence. As

The sweet spot for smart decisions, then, comes not just from being a domain expert, but also from having high self-awareness.

the ability to monitor feelings from moment to moment is crucial to psychological insight and self-understanding. An

Empathy builds on self-awareness; the more open we are to our own emotions, the more skilled we will be in reading feelings.

In fact, people who are extremely adept at mental tasks that demand cognitive control and a roaring working memory—like solving complex math problems—can struggle with creative insights if they have trouble switching off their fully concentrated focus.5

el poeta escocés Robert Burns expresó perfectamente en el siguiente poema: ¡Ah, si nos fuera dado el poder de vernos como los demás nos ven! De cuántos disparates y necedades nos libraríamos.

darse cuenta de los propios sentimientos en el mismo momento en que éstos tienen lugar– constituye

The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant," Albert Einstein