Quotes About Insight

What is behind your eyes holds more power than what is in front of them.

Power, for the writer....lies in his ability to reveal if only a little bit more about the complexity of humanity.

Knowledge is only potential power.

Cultivate an ever-continuous power of observation. Wherever you are, be always ready to make slight notes of postures, groups and incidents.

Foreknowledge is power.

The world of learning is so broad, and the human soul is so limited in power! We reach forth and strain every nerve, but we seize only a bit of the curtain that hides the infinite from us.

Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people, because they have a power of looking at such persons as objects of amusement of another race altogether.

Sometimes the best lighting of all is a power failure.

This is the real power of habit: the insight that your habits are what you choose them to be.

We have within us the power to uplift ourselves. This power is our own awareness.

There is a power in the human mind ... to see things as they are ... but there is equally a power to see things as they might be.

If you have the power to see things through somebody else's eyes, it's like going from black and white to color or two dimensions to three dimensions.

Knowledge is simply a kind of fuel; it needs the motor of understanding to convert it into power.

To claim power over what you do not understand is not wise, nor is the end of it likely to be good.

O, wad some Power the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us, An' foolish notion.

By far the greatest discovery of all the centuries is the power of thought.

Think of your existing power as the exponent in an equation that determines the value of information. The more power you have, the more additional power you derive from the new data.

The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.

Absorb knowledge from every possible source and opportunity. Power gravitates to the man who knows how and why.

Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.

We cannot create observers by saying 'observe,' but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and these means are procured through education of the senses.

Love is not blind-It sees more and not less, but because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Good judgement comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgement.

The fellow that can only see a week ahead is always the popular fellow, for he is looking with the crowd. But the one that can see years ahead, he has a telescope but he can't make anybody believe that he has it.