Quotes About Insight

Anyone can ask questions," said Mr. Wonka. "It's the answers that count.

But I am hearing all the secret whisperings of the world!

I can see you is not born last week.

Gli uomini non sono sempre così furbi come vorrebbero far credere. Te ne accorgerai quando sarai più grande, figlia mia.

The trouble is, I'm writer, and most writers are terrible nosey parkers.

If you are going to get anywhere in life, you have to read a lot of books.

I'm afraid men are not always quite as clever as they think they are. You will learn that when you get a bit older, my girl.

Jesus doesn't divide the world up into the common and the sacred; he gives us eyes to see the sacred in the common.

He writes to his friends in Ephesus: I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened. When people ask you what the Bible is about, do you answer: It's about becoming more enlightened? Because that's how Paul puts it.

The question is: Why have these poems and prayers endured? Why, thousands of years later, do we still have them? And the answer you'll return to again and again is: They speak to our human experience.

Why would we ever be surprised when truth turns up in strange places?

Jesus responds to almost every question he's asked with...a question. What do you think? How do you read it? he asks, again and again and again.

Spirit often exposes the assumptions we've been living with that we haven't been aware of.

When in doubt, assume that they're seeing something that you aren't.

seeing where

Your ikigai is a work in progress because you are a work in progress. Knowing your ikigai, then, takes patience and insight, and courage, and honesty.

What's the Best Question to Ask When You're Reading the Bible? Why did people find this important to write down?...Why did people write this down? What was going on in their world that this was important to them? Why did they feel the need to put words to this? Start with that question. Start with those questions. And see what happens.

I believe the discussion itself is divine.

may have been done or said by someone else. That's a distinct possibility. It may have been done or said before. But it hasn't been done or said by you. It hasn't come through your unique flesh and blood, through your life, through your experience and insight and perspective.

The only real voyage consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes; in seeing the universe through the eyes of another, one hundred others-in seeing the hundred universes that each of them sees. Marcel Proust, translated by Kiyotesong

Even with my limited self-awareness

first-class noticer"—cultivating the ability to attend to what others overlook, experiencing "enchanting reality" as a new and fortuitous gift—is crucial to any creative process.

Old men want to feel that the experience which has come with their years is valuable, that their advice is valuable, that they possess a sagacity that could be obtained only through experience— a sagacity that could be of use to young men if only young men would ask.

A newcomer could ascertain the identity of a town's true leaders – which storekeeper was respected, which farmer was listened to other farmers – only through endless hours of subtle probing of reticent men.