Quotes About Insight

to understand our love they'd have to turn the world upside down

Out of the mouths of babes may come gems of wisdom, but also garbage.

The eye that looks in on us and the eye that looks out from us is not the same eye.

Never be distracted by people's glamorous portraits of themselves and their lives; search and dig for what really imprisons them.

He who poses as a fool is not a fool.

Fools say that they learn by experience. I prefer to profit by others' experience.

Everything that happens to you is a form of instruction if you pay attention.

Events in life mean nothing if you do not reflect on them in a deep way, and ideas from books are pointless if they have no application to life as you live it.

The key then to attaining this higher level of intelligence is to make our years of study qualitatively rich. We don't simply absorb information - we internalize it and make it our own by finding some way to put this knowledge to practical use.

As Gracián said, "The truth is generally seen, rarely heard.

Learn to use the knowledge of the past and you will look like a genius, even when you are really just a clever borrower.

Man will only become better when you make him see what he is like. —Anton Chekhov

There are very few men—and they are the exceptions—who are able to think and feel beyond the present moment.   CARL VON CLAUSEWITZ, 1780-1831

Through continual exposure to people and by attempting to think inside of them we can gain an increasing sense of their perspective, but this requires effort on our part.

You must value learning above everything else.

Moving towards mastery will naturally bring you a more global outlook, but it is always wise to expedite the process by training yourself early on to continually enlarge your perspective.

Understand: we can never really experience what other people are experiencing. We always remain on the outside looking in, and this is the cause of so many misunderstandings and conflicts.

Indeed, I have been a complete ass, and I know it.

All of us know history repeats itself, but mighty few of us recognize the repetition until too late.

I have known a thousand scamps; but I never met one who considered himself so. Self-knowledge isn't so common. —OUIDA

Sometimes it's better not to see. Sometimes it's better to have a choice.

Every experience is a potential life lesson. Even if you don't appreciate it at the time, each struggle in the present is preparing you for something else in the future.

It is the irony of understanding that the more you know the less you comprehend.

Sometimes we just need someone to show us something we can't see for ourselves, and then we change forever.