Quotes About Insight

Belichick's 'genius'- a term he does not like applied to himself- is more than an ability to easily sift through distractions and nonsense and identify the central point.

He is intrigued by complex minds.

Not to have known about this! That here, That nowhere else in the wasteful, wilful, Death-wishing world, here Röntgen focused his ray And the eye first saw right through the skin, So that now without knives we see what is wrong Or is going to be wrong. We still need a ray To coax the delicate wings from the commonplace husk And detect why the horde we are destroys itself.

I always felt that I came up short in the education department, but I've come to the conclusion that we all get an education.

This message is so simple, yet it gets forgotten. The people living with the condition are the experts.

Confusion is the welcome mat at the door of creativity.

As playwright Wilson Mizner observed, "A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something.

At the same time, like biblical prophecy, "its goal is not speculative foresight, but theological insight

G. K. Chesterton's comment is apt: "though St. John the Evangelist saw many strange monsters in his vision, he saw no creature so wild as one of his own commentators."1 So also Luther's: "Some have even brewed it [Revelation] into many stupid things out of their own heads.

Our minds have an amazing ability to create a narrative that explains the world around us, an ability that works particularly well when we already know the answer.

No one can be told who they are. It is an experience, a shift in reality, a change in consciousness.

Another way of putting this point is to say that morality is not empirical. It stands at a certain distance from the world. It passes judgment on the world. Science can't, for all its power and insight, reach moral questions, because it operates within the sensible realm.

Writers are always outsiders and probably ought to be, since only outsiders see things clearly: the people who publish them, or make movies, or produce plays are always richer and more powerful, however successful the writer is.

Those who know don't tell and those who tell don't know.

If you challenge conventional wisdom, you will find ways to do things much better than they are currently done. Bill James

The men on the trading floor may not have been to school, but they have Ph.D.'s in man's ignorance.

Everything, in retrospect, is obvious. But if everything were obvious, authors of histories of financial folly would be rich . . .

I read nonfiction for information, fiction for truth.

To call something crazy is to confess that one doesn't understand it.

I guess, like some guy once said, if triangles invented a god, the chances are high it would have three sides.

Had people become so accustomed to not looking that they were no longer able to see?

The purpose of conflict is to create.

Wisdom can reveal the light hidden in dark times; but it requires that we face the darkness in ourselves. People may desire pearls of wisdom, yet most are unwilling to descend to the depths where the pearls wait to be found. Wisdom involves a necessary descent into the depths of life, for that alone can produce 'lived knowledge' and a unified vision.

If we meet a myth with our lives and deepest concerns, the mythic oracles speak directly to us. Myths are oracular in the sense that each person can receive a message or an insight that relates to their life circumstances. The point has never been to "believe" in myths or to simply accept what others have said they mean. The key issue with mythic images is to let them speak to us, wherever and whenever we find ourselves seeking guidance, permission, or understanding.