Quotes About Insight

Search warrant or no, it always felt weird to me to walk into the house of a stranger. But there's also a voyeuristic fascination: what a person chooses to surround himself with tells you a lot about him.

I wish that one of us had been endowed with some mystical gift of prescience that would have warned us off this train wreck. But you make your decision with the best information you have at the time.

What I lack in energy, I have in wisdom.

El dolor es mejor maestro que el placer.

Saber es una cosa y sentir es otra muy distinta.

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The human animal only sees what it wants to see.

It takes a wise man to learn wisdom from a wise woman!

Great chefs have three things in common: first, they accept and respect mother nature as a true artist; second, everything they do is an extension of them as a true person; and third, they give you insight into the world they were born into.

Look deep into the hearts of men, and see what delights and disgusts the wise.

The controlling Intelligence understands its own nature, and what it does, and whereon it works.

The opinion of 10,000 men is of no value if none of them know anything about the subject.

Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as often as it is practicable and to make this custom the more significant, practice it first upon yourself.

The world you see is seen by you alone. What entices you and what repels you, what strengthens you and what weakens you, is part of a pattern that no one else shares. Therefore, as Mr. Wilde said, no two people can perceive the same "truth," because each person's perspective is different.

The knowledge of what we are ignorant of seems to expand faster than our catalogue of breakthroughs.

Art does many things, but for me where art is at its best is in providing a window into the way another mind works.

We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.

Skúsenos? bez vzdelania je viac ako vzdelanie bez skúsenosti.

To see your enemy and know him is part of the complete education of man.

It is no good pretending that as Christian leaders we have little or no power. We do. Power and power differentials are givens in leadership. Being realistic about this is essential if we are to grasp how we affect others. We need to be as insightful as possible if we want to ensure that we use our power and authority in right and godly ways.

When we read Paul, we are reading somebody else's mail—and unless we know the situation being addressed, his letters can be quite opaque...It is wise to remember that when we are reading letters never intended for us, any problems of understanding are ours and not theirs.

Anger so clouds the mind, that it cannot perceive the truth.

Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.

Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise.