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Quotes About Insight

The things that make us happy make us wise.
~ John Crowley
Proverbs may be said to be the abridgment of wisdom.
~ Joseph Joubert
Hunches are not to be sneezed at.
~ Richard Nelson Bolles
It is often wonderful how putting down on paper a clear statement of a case helps one to see, not perhaps the way out, but the way in.
~ A. C. Benson
Next to being witty, the best thing is being able to quote another's wit.
~ Christian Nestell Bovee
The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.
~ Christian Nestell Bovee
The best leaders are readers of people. They have the intuitive ability to understand others by discerning how they feel and recognizing what they sense.
~ John C. Maxwell
The value of action is that we make mistakes; mistakes show us what we need to learn.
~ Peter McWilliams
Education is very admirable but let us not forget that anything worth knowing cannot be taught.
~ Oscar Wilde
The highest praise we can attribute to any writer, painter, sculptor, builder, is, that he actually possessed the thought or feeling with which he has inspired us.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
God only allows us to see such things when he wants something to change
~ Paulo Coelho, Aleph
Dramatic. A well developed sense of the dramatic has values beyond what people usually imagine. One of these is to realise the limitations of a sense of the dramatic.
~ Idries Shah, Reflections
I may not have a degree, but I certainly got an education.
~ Jodi Picoult, Lone Wolf
Of all the idiots I have met in my life, and the Lord knows they have not been few or little, I think that I have been the biggest.
~ Karen Blixen
One truth doesn't refute another. Truth doesn't lie in the object, but in how we see it.
~ Michael J. Sullivan
Behold the power of the truth. When people see its shadow on the wall, they don't want to take the time to look away.
~ Mira Grant, Feed
You can't understand where someone's going unless you understand where they've been.
~ Jerry B. Jenkins
Ingenuity requires creativity.
~ Veronica Roth, Insurgent
In the experience is the emotion. In the emotion is the gift.
~ Patricia Brooks
Wise sayings are not only for ornament, but for action and business, having a point or edge, whereby knots in business are pierced and discovered.
~ Francis Bacon
Wisdom is something that seeks itself. The wiser you become the more you'd like to know.
~ Frederick Lenz
The average person just sees through their senses. The world is filled with wonderful mysteries and beauty. You need personal power to open up all of that, without it - these are just words.
~ Frederick Lenz
It is the quick path. We turn everything inside out and upside down - which is when it gets straightened out very neatly and in an orderly fashion.
~ Frederick Lenz
When you are in a painful situation, look at it. If you look deeply enough and you don't get freaked out, you will see that there is beauty in everything. You will see that there is beauty in you.
~ Frederick Lenz