Quotes About Insight

We have to put our hearts and our minds in places where wisdom gathers, not scatters.

Knowledge is wisdom that comes from acquiring truth. Insight is wisdom that comes from living out the truth we acquire. Discernment is wisdom that comes from the Holy Spirit's reminders of that knowledge and insight.

We hyper-focus on the lines of Scripture containing the miracles, and we miss the details of the mess.

wisdom like none other can arise from those hard places that bring us low.

The Bible reminds us that on the other side of humility we find wisdom

Wisdom makes decisions today that will still be good for tomorrow.

It's Good to Ask the "What" Questions but Less Helpful to Ask "Why

I often pray this prayer: I need wisdom to make wise choices. I need insight to remember the words I've read in scripture. I need power beyond what I can find on my own.

And this is my prayer: that your love may abound more and more in knowledge and depth of insight, so that you may be able to discern what is best and may be pure and blameless for the day of Christ. (Phil. 1:9–10, emphasis added)

As we wisely gain knowledge through the everyday stuff, and grapple with the development of our discernment through everyday stuff, we'll use what we have to our advantage in making better decisions. (41)

His name is fool and folly goes with him everywhere he goes" (1 Samuel 25:25, paraphrased).

Enlightened literally means "to shed light upon.

To the thinker, the most trifling external object often suggests ideas, which, like Homer's chain, extend, link after link, from earth to heaven.

Truth makes on the surface of nature no one track of light -- every eye looking on finds its own.

Thought is valuable in proportion as it is generative.

A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.

Doubt is often the beginning of wisdom.

This experience, Lick would say, gave him an instant insight into the scientific method: Always be extremely careful in your work—and in your proclamations of faith.

It didn't take very long for Arthur to realize that, when it came to real-world complexities, the elegant equations and the fancy mathematics he'd spent so much time on in school were no more than tools—and limited tools at that. The crucial skill was insight, the ability to see connections.

Blindness and error can change a life as surely as judgment and reason can.

You are only as wise as others perceive you to be.

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards." —Søren Kierkegaard

The gut speaks—and rarely lies—of what is and what is to come.

What I give form to in daylight is only one per cent of what I have seen in darkness.