Quotes About Insight

deaf ear is evidence of a closed mind.

La primera regla para estimar la inteligencia de un gobernante es observar a los hombres que tiene alrededor suyo

The wise does at once what the fool does at last.

Creo que cada experiencia tiene algo que enseñarnos, pero muchos fallan en aprender de las suyas porque se enfocan en las pérdidas más que en las lecciones.

The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts." –JOHN LOCKE

The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality." That can happen only when the leader is willing to hear and face the truth.

Matt. 13:10–13)

The neurologist and psychologist Maurice Nicoll told how he had once asked his headmaster about a passage in the Bible, and after he had listened to the answer for some time, he realized that the man had no idea what he was talking about. What I admire about Nicoll is that he made this discovery when he was only ten. It took me another forty-five years before the penny dropped: very, very few people have any idea what they are talking about.

The Buddhists have a phrase for this—"Beginner's Mind"—expressing how experience can be more vivid when it's not dulled by familiarity.

People are changed not by exhortations to do things but by experiences... they may be changed by experience, in a way that could never be achieved with mere good advice.

What is not perceived as such is not perceived at all.

You learn more about someone at the end of a relationship than at the beginning.

His closing his eyes to me, opened my eyes to him.

It would do the world good if every man would compel himself occasionally to be absolutely alone. Most of the world's progress has come out of such loneliness.

I know you think you broke my heart, but I saw your game right from the start, I knew it well and played it too, so laugh it up the jokes on you.

Don't be mad cause I don't care anymore, be mad because I once did and you were too blind to see it.

He who forgets his past is lost. If you don't know where you are coming from, you wouldn't know where you are going.

Forgive yourself for the blindness that put you in the path of those who betrayed you. Sometimes a good heart doesn't see the bad.

Understanding is often a prelude to forgiveness, but they are not the same, and we often forgive what we cannot understand (seeing nothing else to do) and understand what we cannot pardon.

To understand is to forgive, even oneself.

Sad are only those who understand

Wise men put their trust in ideas and not in circumstances.

Don't mistake my highness for blindness. Giving me them fake smiles, I know whats behind them.

Time passes and you begin to see, people for who they really are and not who they pretend to be.