Quotes About Insight

To have misapprehended the matter is to have confessed that one has not looked far enough.

And no one will listen to us until we listen to ourselves.

Until we have seen someone's darkness, we don't really know who they are. Until we have forgiven someone's darkness, we don't really know what love is.

There is nothing new except what has been forgotten.

Tiresias." He was often where he should not be, even where he could not be.

Molto più tardi avrei imparato che il pensiero non si affaccia spontaneamente alla porta del nascosto. Non basta voler penetrare nell'inconscio perché la mente venga dietro. Il pensiero temporeggia, va avanti poi indietro, esita, sta in agguato ma poi quando viene il momento giusto, si ferma davanti alla porta come un cane da punta, rimane paralizzato. Poi, è il padrone che deve far alzare la selvaggina.

Well I am glad I have something of the fool in my disposition--foolishness being the only quality that makes wisdom possible.

Nothing in this world is to be feared... only understood.

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.

Se menos curioso acerca de las personas y más curioso acerca de las ideas.

insight without action is worthless. Taking action is the only path to change.

Si noe som er innlysende,si det for første gang, og du blir udødelig (Norwegian)

Great results begin with great questions.

Authentic listening is not easy. We hear the words, but rarely do we really slow down to listen and to squint with our ears, to hear the emotions, fears, and underlying concerns. Kevin Cashman

the best way to solve a problem is to first come up with better questions.

Eugene Peterson claims that "to eyes that can see, every bush is a burning bush:' Poems, when they are doing what they do best, offer us a glimpse of that fire.

Fear is a question. What are you afraid of and why? Our fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if we explore them.

It seems sometimes that people take a deliberately myopic and fill their eyes with things seen microscopically in order not to see macrosopically.

I've always believed that a person is smart. It's people that are stupid.

I fear I am beyond your comprehension. - Gandalf the White

It's harder to be afraid of something you understand

If you spend your life over analysing every encounter you will always see the tree, but never the forest.

It is a responsibility for those that see and have understanding, and choose to not be bridled by fear, to step forward and lead the way.

One of the soundest rules to remember when making forecasts in the field of economics is that whatever is to happen is happening already.