Quotes About Insight

Any man who knows all the answers most likely misunderstood the questions

Reality is only seen when the mirror is clean

Intelligence consists in recognizing opportunity

A friend will know you better in the first minute they see you, than your acquaintance will in a thousand years.

A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .

A wise man learns from his mistakes, but a wiser man learns from someone else's.

Education is what you get from reading the fine print. Experience is what you get from not reading it.

Fools copy proverbs

Half of being smart is knowing what you are dumb about.

Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself.

Listen to life, it is the wisest teacher of all.

Love is not blind, it sees more not less; But because it sees more it chooses to see less.

No great wisdom can be reached without sacrifice.

Sometimes it takes a Stranger to Understand you

The difficulties we experience Always illuminate the lessons we need most.

The people with the best advice are usually the ones who have been through the most.

The way they leave tells you everything.

What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.

Some acts of faith, I believe, have the power to grant us something infinitely wiser than we imagine

With the stories of people she'd known since her childhood it was like that: one incident in their lives might come to an ending, but others would lead into new veins, and what was fascinating was to look at the whole of it and discern a pattern, a way of being, that had shaped those passages.

Not a quote. Did Ursula study at Hunter College?

sometimes the desert gives you an answer, and it is your job to find the question.

What else but a profound feeling of being excluded can enable a person better to see the absurdity of the world and his own existence, or, to put it more soberly, the absurd dimensions of the world and his own existence?

The real question is whether the brighter future is really always so distant. What if, on the contrary, it has been here for a long time already, and only our own blindness and weakness has prevented us from seeing it around us and within us, and kept us from developing it?