Quotes About Insight

Friendship allows you to see your own life but with a second sympathetic self.

Her genius derives from the fact that she was capable of the deepest feeling but also of the most discerning and disciplined thought.

You haven't read anything until you've comprehended it.

Some of you people just about missed it

The more you know, the more you know you don't know and the more you know that you don't know.

When everything is visible and appears to be dumb, that's when the details take on larger meanings.

Death gives us a whole new perspective on life" Excerpt from my recent journal titled "My Thoughts On Death

The memorandum gives a startling insight into Hitler's thinking. He was above all a warrior. His years in the trenches were the formative experience in his life and his constant point of reference. His chief enemy was international Jewry.

Cunnilingus and psychiatry brought us to this.

I must try to remember that a boy's heart is not a man's, and perhaps a teacher must learn from his pupil, too, eh?

they say that wisdom is a woman, and loves a warrior.

To paraphrase one of my favorite math professors: The difference between great artists, and artists who are not so great, is that great artists think deeply about simple things.

When you're in the muck you can only see muck. If you somehow manage to float above it, you still see the muck but you see it from a different perspective. And you see other things too. That's the consolation of philosophy.

Listen to the crickets," she said, nodding sagely as she spoke, understanding everything.

If you don't read books, and if you don't get consumed by the physical and moral life of men and women in fiction and history, too many facets of yourself may never come into being.

My pencil and I are more clever than I.

discovering good explanations is hard, but the harder they are to find, the harder they are to vary once found.

Behind it all is surely an idea so simple, so beautiful, that when we grasp it – in a decade, a century, or a millennium – we will all say to each other, how could it have been otherwise?

They can be understood only by being explained. Fortunately, our best theories embody deep explanations as well as accurate predictions.

After all, computers play chess mindlessly – by exhaustively searching the consequences of all possible moves – but humans achieve a similar-looking functionality in a completely different way, by creative and enjoyable thought.

the remark of a Middlesex Regiment officer in 1918. "Intelligence services," the man had said, "are prone to looking up their own arses and wondering why it's dark.

Editors and agents have an uncanny ability to zero in on the very thing you knew—but didn't want to admit—was wrong with your proposal or manuscript.

Isn't it interesting what a stranger can offer? A little wisdom, a little mercy, a little love.

It is true, of course, that great preachers are always few and far between in any age. But in every age there should be enough preachers to do the job, preachers who are conscientious, who know what it is to labor over Scripture during the week and then on Sunday deliver its truth with some conviction, with some insight, with some depth, and with some application to life, and in the Holy Spirit's power.