Quotes About Insight

We need help, the poet reckoned.

I'm confused, and brilliant books help me to be less so.

Writing helps me process things that are happening to me.

If I am intuitively led to buy and read a book, what that means is that there is something there that will help me grow spiritually.

We cannot teach people anything we can only help them discover it within themselves.

A man who reads will find himself.

Synchronicity - the sense of significance beyond chance

Recognizing poor leadership is a vital skill to help you achieve greatness.

Computers ought to help people find their own best path through lots of textual information.

Ordinary life is fascinating when viewed with extraordinary perspective.

A man can only attain knowledge with the help of those who possess it. This must be understood from the very beginning. One must learn from him who knows.

If one is sick, one is usually the last person to know.

There is nothing more blinding than having seen the light, and nothing more tiresome than sharing it.

There's a good reason why nobody studies history, it just teaches you too much.

What we learn from History is that no one learns from History

We learn nothing from history except that we learn nothing from history.

What history teaches us is that neither nations nor governments ever learn anything from it.

History repeats itself, but in such cunning disguise that we never detect the resemblance until the damage is done.

You have to know the past to understand the present.

The obvious is always least understood.

To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries.

The only thing new in the world is the history you don't know.

There is nothing new in this world other than the history that you don't know yet.

The good historian is like the giant of the fairy tale. He knows that wherever he catches the scent of human flesh, there his quarry lies.