Quotes About Insight

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Much like to the mole in Æsopes fable, that, being blynd her selfe, would in no wise be perswaded that any beast could see.

He never studied, not a paper, not a textbook . . . the books he reads are the people that come to him

Writing is the product of a deeply disturbed psyche, and by no means therapeutic.

Writers have this schizophrenic ability to both participate in their lives and, at the same time, observe themselves participating in their lives.

But I can see. I can see everything. I can see things that mom and dad can't. Or won't.

Critical thinking does seem a superior sort of thinking because it seems as though the critic is actually going beyond the scope of what is being criticized in order to criticize it. That is only rarely a true assumption because, most often, the critic will seize on some little aspect that he or she understands and tackle only that.

Conversation enriches the understanding, but the school of genius is solitude.

I think if you have to think about anything very long, you've obviously done yourself an injury, as it were.

If we can widen the range of experiences beyond what we as individuals have encountered, if we can draw upon the experiences of others who've had to confront comparable situations in the past, then - although there are no guarantees - our chances of acting wisely should increase proportionately.

Good historians...have the future in their bones

Today's common sense had a habit of turning into tomorrow's utter nonsense.

Dicen que los poetas y los intelectuales son los mejores terroristas

Observe Everything. Always think for yourself. Never let other people make important decisions for you.

This was Paul's joy in suffering and shame: "that I may know him and the power of his resurrection, and may share his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, that by any means possible I may attain the resurrection from the dead" (Philippians 3:10–11). Notice how this affects your shameful past. It will still hurt at times, but shame will lose its power. The very event that made you an outcast is the one that gives you insight into the mind of Christ.

Who in your life is one step ahead of you in knowing people? What does that person do?

If you want to know more about yourself, turn to Jesus. When

It takes a man a long time to learn all the lessons of all his mistakes. They say there are two sides to everything. But there is only one side to the stock market; and it is not the bull side or the bear side, but the right side. It took me longer to get that general principle fixed firmly in my mind

There is no pain worse than ignorance and lack of intellegence.

I think anger and laughter are very close to each other, when you think about it.

In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.

What do you see when you look and what do you hear when you read?

Many of the things you can count, don't count. Many of the things you can't count, really count.

The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder.