Quotes About Insight

He understood people a little too well, and the knowledge made him nervous.

We age as the rest of the world watches, she thought, but somehow we're the last to know.

Experience is the best teacher.... The primary and most obvious reason for this is that revelation is not over, God is constantly revealing himself to us in our experience.... Of

A rabbi challenged his followers one day: "Where does God exist?" Puzzled by what almost seemed to be a heretical question, they answered: "God exists everywhere." "No," the rabbi responded: "God exists wherever man lets Him in.

People greatly value knowledge and intelligence, but not wisdom.

He taught us that everyone has a good story and the more of others you understand, the better your grasp of human nature, a gift given great weight in my family (73). - Bill Clinton, Paying Attention

You can always use intuition and observation to bring out the truth.

helpful. The spirit is God-conscious. The soul

Even a brief glimpse of what we were is valuable to help understand what we are

It's always better to know. It is. That's the great thing about being a detective. Information makes you stronger. And if it's bad news, it makes you even stronger.

Advice? You're too old to be given it and too young to take it.

He wanted to ask whether she were insane, but he had been married long enough to know the price of injudicious rhetorical questions.

I do not understand men." That made him chuckle, deep in his chest. "Yes, ye do, Sassenach. Ye only wish ye didn't.

There is a saying: in the kingdom of the blind, the one eyed man is king. I promptly invented its analogy, based it on experience. When no one knows what to do anyone with a sensible suggestion is going to be listened to.

Could it be possible that he really did have enough imagination to be able to grasp the truth?

I listen," she said simply. "To what folk say—and what they don't.

exposure to a two-year-old boy was probably the best possible object lesson in the dangers of motherhood

If ever you find yourself in the midst of paradox, you can be sure you stand on the edge of truth," his adoptive father had told him once. "You may not know what it is, mind," he'd added with a smile. "But it's there.

It's always better if they see. Then they don't imagine things. So I didn't imagine, I remembered.

astutely observes that a Man's sense of

I had known her long enough, though, to realize that one of Jenny's greatest gifts was her ability to see something with utter clarity—and then to look straight through it, as though it wasn't there.

Diana Gabaldon

I do not understand men." That made him chuckle, deep in his chest. "Yes, ye do, Sassenach. Ye only wish ye didn

I luxuriated in that delightful feeling that comes when we observe someone having to do something unpleasant that we are not required to do ourselves.