Quotes About Insight

My favorite spot on earth is only a seven-minute walk from where I live, Nero Wolfe's house on West 35th Street: Herald Square, where you can see more different kinds of people in ten minutes than anywhere else I know of. One day I saw the top cock of the Mafia step back to let a Sunday-school teacher from Iowa go first through the revolving door of the world's largest department store. If you ask how I knew who they were, I didn't, but that's what they looked like.

Perhaps you don't know all there is to know about a woman after watching her at an evening of bridge, but you should know more than when you sat down.

Understanding is forgiveness. - Sonnet XV

Turn your wounds into wisdom." Oprah Winfrey (B. 1954) MEDIA PERSONALITY AND BUSINESSWOMAN

DN: I know a certain human with his brains in his, his other end.

Piensa mal y acertarás.

Ratones arriba, que todo lo blanco no es harina.

A verdade está inscrita na estrutura do mundo, apenas temos de saber lê-la.

Me puse las gafas para que todas las cosas volvieran a su sitio.

Learning is not proportional to the distance from the board

After all, almost everyone I know, even my very oldest friends, remain, in important ways, a mystery to me.

Betus hom qu invenit sapientiam. (Proverbs 3.13: betus hom, sc. est.)

Richard A. LaFleur

Caec sunt ducs caecrum. (Matthew 15.14:

Here is where people, One frequently finds, Lower their voices And raise their minds.

people's stupidity probably explains much of what people do and don't do, as I have conceded all along in this book.

Your friends will know you better in the first moment you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a lifetime.

Sometimes when learning comes before experience it doesn't make sense right away.

Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding. Find out what you already know and you will see the way to fly.

We teach best what we most need to learn.

If you will practice being fictional for a while, you will understand that fictional characters are sometimes more real than people with bodies and heartbeats.

You can't always understand something just because you did it.

Reframing is also the pivotal element in the creative process: it is the ability to put a commonplace event in a new frame that is useful or enjoyable.

In the first place, John's work is a prophetic apocalypse in that it communicates a disclosure of a transcendent perspective on this world.