Quotes About Insight

If thirty years of being a psychologist has taught me anything, it is that it is much easier to talk about things than to change them.

I do not think anyone can say what is in someone else.

He said what he meant; he was puzzled if you did not. Some people might have mistaken this for simplicity. But is it not a sort of genius to cut always to the heart?

Is it not our human tragedy that some men must be beaten like donkeys before they will see reason?

Her only love was reason. And that has never been the same as wisdom.

Do not listen to your enemy, Odysseus had once told me. Look at them. It will tell you everything.

It was a trick of his, to set a sentence out like a plate on a table and see what you would put on it. But he surprised me by continuing.

Less than a month we had spent together, yet he seemed to know me better than anyone who had ever walked the world.

Such is the folly of humanity. Is it not our human tragedy that some men must be beaten like donkeys before they will see reason?

A true-made bow, Odysseus had called her. A fixed star. A woman who knew herself. "I asked her how she did it once, how she understood the world so clearly. She told me that it was a matter of keeping very still and showing no emotions, leaving room for others to reveal themselves.

Some people might have mistaken this for simplicity. But is it not a sort of genius to cut always to the heart? O

It was a trick of his, to set a sentence out like a plate on a table and see what you would put on it.

It was the sort of secret I loved to discover, for it made me feel cynical and wise.

That was the moment I lived for, when it all came clear at last and the spell could sing with its pure note, for me and me alone.

Some people might have mistaken this for simplicity. But is it not a sort of genius to cut always to the heart?

The things that make us happy make us wise.

Vulnerability is the curse of the thinking classes.

I have busted my gut to learn how to make people open up. Meyer was born with it. A loving empathy shines out of those little bright-blue eyes. Strangers tell him things they wouldn't tell their husband or their priest.

uno no puede tener éxito en los negocios si no tiene un olfato para las oportunidades.

what we don't know and can't do far exceeds what we do know and can do. A little humility, then, is hardly rocket science. It is common sense.

And who understands? Not me, because if I did I would forgive it all.

words are but pictures of our thoughts

Whatever is, is in its causes just; But purblind man Sees but a part o' th' chain; the nearest link; His eyes not carrying to that equal beam That poises all above.

That is exactly what we need. Eyes to see. Isn't that what Jesus offered us—clarity? Recovery of sight for the blind (Luke 4:18)? We need clarity and we need it badly. A simple prayer rises from my heart: Jesus, take away the fog and the clouds and the veil, and help me to see . . . give me eyes to really see.