Quotes About Insight

An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation.

Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook.

Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.

Mistakes are the growing pains of wisdom.

Unlike them, however, her path was not through daring deeds or the study of magic or the use of miraculous powers. She had been gifted with something almost as rare: an open and eager mind. She had the gift of watching and listening, the gift of taking all the hurts and happenings of others' lives and understanding their purpose.

sometimes the only way a man learns the true spirit of a rock is to stub his toe on it.

Why don't the spirits just tell us things, Henry? How come they make it so hard? The old man laughed. I think it is like this. The spirits shoot an arrow. It is past us before we can see it clearly. But if we follow, eventually we come to the place where it has lodged. And we realize the arrow is not important. What is important is the place it has guided us to.

A sensible man keeps out of politics

It is hardly in human nature that a man should quite accurately gauge the limits of his own insight; but it is the duty of those who profit by his work to consider carefully where he may have been carried beyond it.

I admit--no one worth knowing can be quite known, no one worth possessing can be quite possessed-

You have to follow your intuition. That is what expertise is: all the experience, the cases won and lost, the painful mistakes, all the technical details you learn by rote repetition, over time these things leave you with an instinctive sense of your craft. A "gut" for it.

For all we have learned, the fact remains that we do not understand in any meaningful way why people do what they do, and likely never will.

And we would always be shaped by the experience, in ways we could not guess at the time.

But it is not enough to be told a word as big as that. You have to live with it, carry it around with you. You have to pace around and around it, see it from different angles, at different times of day, in different light, until you understand, until it enters you. You have to hold it inside yourself in secret for years, like the hideous stone inside a peach. How

Everyone has something to teach you, Duddleman, if you can bear to stay quiet enough to listen.

The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.

You can learn more about human nature by reading the Bible than by living in New York.

Every one of these lessons would serve me well in the years ahead as I began applying the secrets I learned from the long-dead to understanding the stories of the recently murdered. BY

Where there is mind, there is always solution, Keneenk taught. All problems contained the elements of their answer.

El creyente más humilde puede ver más sobre sus rodillas que el incrédulo más culto de puntillas. Consideremos

Everybody must seem crazy if you see deep enough into their minds.

And part of growin' up is learnin' to see the world through other men's eyes.