Quotes About Insight

Only to read their letters, notes and poems, not to see them smiling … They distilled their wisdom in writing, not in prizes … For a kind of heavenly sense made clear, for an hour, deep inside us: That's why we read the wise.

Grandiose patients often imagine that we know more about them than we do.

I was thinking that we all learn by experience, but some of us have to go to summer school.

I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine o'clock every morning.

There's no such thing as knowledge management; there are only knowledgeable people. Information only becomes knowledge in the hands of someone who knows what to do with it.

My greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few questions.

Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window.

writing stories, scenes, and portraits is a very inductive process and will lead you to new insights and new points of view you couldn't reach by reasoning alone.

Our level of insight does not determine our level of trust. In fact, seeking insight rather than trust can get in the way of our walk with God.

Transposing the past is an act of wisdom. It is not scripted. It can't be predicted.

Reading the situation—not simply the Bible—is what wisdom is all about.

To put it plainly, the life of faith is the pursuit of wisdom.

To live by faith—to live wisely—means living with an ever-increasing awareness of the hidden things, not simply a detached general knowledge that, say, "Money can be harmful," but a deep knowledge of ourselves, a true self-awareness of what money is doing to me . . . right now.

We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.

age was a truly cumulative thing, bringing a degree of wisdom to life.

octopuses, far more than rats and pigeons, have their own ideas:

3. Me ha pillado en el ¡Ajá!

Miss the audience's heart as a filmmaker, and the only wallet that gets hit will be your own.

No habrá concluido su tarea hasta que digan «¡Ajá! ¡Ya lo entiendo!»

Oh, so if we look at the picture we can tell which word makes sense." Then, rather than praising them, she offers a comment that positions them powerfully: "Thanks for teaching us that.

To want to understand is an attempt to recapture something we have lost.

It may be necessary to stand on the outside of one is to see things clearly.

Some thoughts have glue on them.----Smilla

That's where we humans make a mistake. We don't see the utterly amazing when it comes to us disguised as the ordinary.