Quotes About Insight

The channels of intuitive knowledge are opened according to the intensity of individual need.

If toes had eyes, then I could see how my feet know where to go, but toes are blind. And how is it that my tongue speaks words it cannot hear? Because for all its eloquence, the tongue itself is deaf, and flaps in soundlessness.

English majors understand human nature better than economists do.

I suspected that there were things he knew that I had been waiting all my life to learn.

Mother Land provides evidence that growth in self-understanding can be achieved at a late stage of life -- Theroux is in his seventies -- evidence that the story is not over yet and that new insight and change can take place until the end.

You want to know what's going on in someone's life? Ask them how they feel first thing in the morning.

We evoke the world we perceive.

a dementia sufferer effuses delight and notices very different things when taken out in her wheelchair. Such people can teach us to see again the little things that make a big difference. They can show us how to enjoy familiar environments with fresh new eyes.

Leaving your ears open to the suggestions of others only closes the mind's eye, thereby creating a type of spiritual glaucoma.

I found I could not not let the words flow.

History looks queer when you're standing close to it, watching where it is coming from and how it's being made.

In complete darkness, it is only knowledge and wisdom that separates us.

The more you know, the better armed you'll be for what's to come.

when you are in the company of the unfamiliar, you look for unfamiliar wisdom. You'll find lots of it, and it will make you richer.

Very often the lessons you learn are more important than the things you accomplish

Vision is also a fickle creature. You can see an object a hundred times, a thousand times, and it remains unchanged. Then in one swift second you realize it has been changing all along and your eyes hid it from you.

Vision is also a fickle creature. You can see an object a hundred times, a thousand times, and it remains unchanged. Then in one swift second you realize it has been changing all along and your eyes hid it from you. Savannah

I wish I'd gotten sober at a younger age.

The Bible says if you pray for wisdom, God will give it to you!

God already knows who did this, after all. If we pray for wisdom, He will give it to us. That's what the Bible says. So pray for wisdom!

Independent thinkers are usually deemed nuts until everyone realizes they were onto something all along

May you have the hindsight to know where you've been, The foresight to know where you're going, And the insight to know when you're going too far. Irish proverb

Many admire, few know

My personal mindblower was "Desolation Row," but the song that cut the deepest was "Like a Rolling Stone." The song was about discovering what was actually going on around you, realizing that life isn't all that you've been told it is.