Quotes About Insight

There's none so blind as those who will not listen.

Knowledge is high in the head, but the salmon of wisdom swims deep

The clearest way to see through a culture is to attend to its tools for conversation.

How often does it occur that information provided you on morning radio or television, or in the morning newspaper, causes you to alter your plans for the day, or to take some action you would not otherwise have taken, or provides insight into some problem you are required to solve?

La inteligencia se define fundamentalmente como nuestra capacidad para captar la verdad de las cosas.

And, in the end, what will the students have learned? They will, to be sure, have learned something about whales, perhaps about navigation and map reading, most of which they could have learned just as well by other means. Mainly, they will have learned that learning is a form of entertainment or, more precisely, that anything worth learning can take the form of an entertainment, and ought to.

President Kennedy would have been better served if he had remembered from his days as a junior officer in the Navy that the closer one gets to a fight, the more one learns of its essence.

One of benefit of fiction: it puts your mind off your reality when your reality is off-putting.

They say that love is blind, but it's trauma that's blind. Love sees what is.

True wisdom has a curious way of revealing to yourself your own true ignorance.

And there ain't nothin' like a friend who can tell you you're just pissin' in the wind. -- Neil Young, "Ambulance Blues" from "On the Beach" (1974)

The book doesn't preach; it just offers up another way of looking at life.

Know your enemy — and learn about his favorite sport.

Great thinking comes from a great mind

to truly lead one's people one must also truly know them.

It reminded me once again that truly to lead one's people one must also truly know them.

Light People bring clarity, not confusion.

Mr. White, Heath's sixth-grade teacher, once told the class that hatred wasn't the worst emotion; the worst emotion was indifference. She'd not understood what Mr. White meant until this night.

She was forty before she realized that when she asked a man what he was thinking and he said, "Nothing," he wasn't lying.

To the unenlightened man this will seem to be all fantasy, yet all progress comes from those who do not take the accepted view, nor accept the world as it is.

You know a thing mentally by looking at it from the outside, by comparing it with other things, by analyzing it and defining it; whereas you can know a thing spiritually only by becoming it. You must be the thing itself and not merely talk about it or look at it.

For the Lord seeth not as a man seeth, for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the Lord looketh on the heart." The heart is the primary organ of sense, hence the first cause of experience. When you look "on the heart" you are looking at your assumptions: assumptions determine your experience. Watch your assumption with all diligence for out of it are the issues of life. Assumptions have the power of objective realization.

The ninth disciple is called James the son of Alphaeus. This is the quality of discernment, A clear and ordered mind is the voice which calls this disciple into being. This faculty perceives that which is not revealed to the eye of man.

La verdadera clarividencia descansa, no en tu capacidad de ver cosas más allá del alcance de la visión humana, sino más bien en tu capacidad de comprender lo que ves.