Quotes About Insight

Now and again when a book moved her, when a book opened a previously undiscovered window in her mind and forever altered her perception of the world, she would add it to those secret ranks. Once in

The main thing to do is pay attention. Pay close attention to everything, notice what no one else notices. Then you'll know what no one else knows, and that's always useful.

A person who thought he knew everything simply didn't understand how much there was to know.

The main thing is to pay attention. Pay close attention to everything, notice what no one else notices. Then you'll know what no one else knows, and that's always useful.

It would be something that another person had written down without understanding its significance; just a sentence or two that would be like a flash of light.

The main thing is to pay attention. Pay close attention to everything, notice what no one else notices. Then you'll know what no one else knows, and that's always useful.

All readers are good readers, when they have the right book.

Maybe he's feeling unseen," she said. "It's possible that that's the lesson in all of this, not who sees you but who you can learn to see.

What ultimately got me through was my single-minded determination, voiced aloud to myself and recorded in my diary, to discover the causes of my blindness and never to repeat them. Fearlessly pursuing insight was my badge of honor, my route back to self-respect.

put problems into perspective—they give you a means for standing back and getting a better view of a situation

The more I see of men, the more I admire dogs.

You didn't need a college degree to become one of the people who knew what was really going on. If you paid attention, you could pick things up on your own.

The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

omdat ze niet begreep dat ik met mijn benaderingswijze, die op het oog nogal ondoorzichtig was, in zekere zin beoogde de realiteit waarmee ik werd geconfronteerd murw te maken, zoals men er pas in slaagt bij voorbeeld een olijf aan zijn vork te prikken als men haar eerst murw heeft gemaakt, en dat mijn neiging nooit iets te forceren niet nadelig voor me was maar in werkelijkheid juist het terrein voor me effende waar ik, als de dingen me rijp leken, zou kunnen scoren.

It is important never to separate love and knowledge, compassion and wisdom. A wisdom without compassion is closed upon itself and does not bear fruit. A compassion without wisdom is a madness and a cause of suffering.

C]hange your thinking, your interpretation of he world, change the way you see! To change the way you see is to change the world. (50)

Just because you have a thought, doesn't make you a thought leader!

There's no overestimating our ability to avoid making eye contact with the obvious.

The price. Of truth. Is everything.

It is high time that we realized that it is pointless to praise the light and preach it if nobody can see it. It is much more needful to preach the art of seeing. Carl Jung

As the writer, I know, but does my reader?

Nike founder and CEO Phil Knight quickly recognized that Riswold

You can explain things to people, but you can't understand things to people.

if you're going to wait to get all the information you think you need before you act, you'll never act because there's an infinite amount of information out there.