Quotes About Insight

Things are only half - opened before us, unveiled and hidden.

Remember that you cannot work on yourself unless you begin to wonder why you say what you say and do what you do and behave as you behave and feel what you feel and think what you think. To take yourself for granted, to imagine you are always right, to ascribe to yourself all that you do ascribe to yourself—all that form of sheer imagination will prevent you from seeing what esotericism means, what the Gospels mean, and what you mean.

Girls are infinitely more complicated than boys and women more than men. And there's no doubt about that. We just don't like to think about it. Certainly the men don't like to think about it.

I learn something from criticism because when it comes from sources you respect you always examine it and learn.

People are very quick to ridicule others for showing fear. But we rarely know the secret springboards behind human action. The man who shows great fear today may be tomorrow's hero. Who are we to judge?" Audie Murphy, most decorated soldier of World War II, Congressional Medal of Honor winner.

It was always this way: The more people talked, the more they obscured. You didn't need to argue for the truth. You could see it.

She didn't really enjoy reading but she liked how the books were clues. Each one a piece in a puzzle. Even when they didn't fit together, they revealed a little more about what kind of picture she was making.

I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul.

Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter.

You will think me lamentably crude: my experience of life has been drawn from life itself.

To know is always better, no matter what the answer might be.

We can teach ourselves to see things the way they ARE. Only with vision can we begin to see things the way they CAN BE.

The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality.

Wise sayings are not always easy to understand at first. Sometimes it takes effort, time, and maturity to comprehend a deeper insight.

Ich kann es nicht ausstehen, wenn man mir sagt, was ich zu empfinden habe; dann komme ich mir, obschon ich sehe, wovon die Rede ist, wie ein Blinder vor.

The main thing those Americans who really knew about Vietnam knew was how little they knew.

Insight must precede application.

I know all about you from your books,' she said. 'But in spite of that you're still a riddle to me.' Have you come here to solve it?' I asked.

It must be that people who read go on more macrocosmic and microcosmic trips – biblical god trips, the Tibetan Book of the Dead, Ulysses, Finnegan's Wake trips. Non-readers, what do they get? (They get the munchies.)

Knowledge Gives You Power.

Henri Fehr, the famous Swiss scientist, said that practically all his good ideas came to him when he was not actively engaged in work on a problem, and that most of the discoveries of his contemporaries were made when they were away from their workbench, so to speak.

I Can See Clearly Now, Dr. Wayne W. Dyer

The mere reading of words will not show you or give you the experience of truth.

The first time someone shows you who they are, believe them.