Quotes About Insight

I'm good at asking questions, Marilla." "I believe you" was Marilla's emphatic comment.

Aunt Elizabeth was one of those people who never do understand anything unless it is told them in plain language and hammered into their heads. And thy they understand it only with their brains and not with their hearts.

Podoba mi siÄ™ czÅ'owiek, którego oczy mówiÄ… wiÄ™cej ni? wargi.

There's all the difference in the world, you know, between being inside looking out and outside looking in.

But we can't have things perfect in this imperfect world, as Mrs. Lynde says. Mrs. Lynde isn't exactly a comforting person sometimes, but there's no doubt she says a great many very true things.

If you buy your experience it's your own. So it's no matter how much you pay for it. Somebody else's experience can never be yours. Well, it's a funny old world.

She is good and smart, which is better than being pretty.

To see things as they really were--what an empoverishment!

Ming is the only person besides Brenda who sees Katherine for what she is—a vengeful martyr in a Kabuki mask of dedication. Ming is also the only person besides Brenda who knows how infrequently Dagou actually talks to Katherine—knows

The smartest man alive can't learn much about a woman in two weeks.

Buffalo Hump knew his son was brave, but that was not enough. If a warrior lacked wisdom, courage alone would not keep him alive for long.

I don't claim to know much: cards, fucking, and dentistry about covers it," Doc said.

The other men were easy to talk to, but they didn't know anything. If one stopped to think about it, it was depressing how little most men learned in their lifetimes.

Ikey had passed his seventieth year and considered anyone under fifty to be callow, at best.

He gathers information that we can't see, and puts it together.

Her own folly amused her: she had once thought of herself as smart—but look at where she was.

A good title can save a book

I figured out something, Lorie," he said. "I figured out why you and me get along so well. You know more than you say and I say more than I know.

If one stopped to think about it, it was depressing how little most men learned in their lifetimes. Pea Eye was a prime example. Though loyal and able and brave, Pea had never displayed the slightest ability to learn from his experience, though his experience was considerable. Time and again he would walk up on the wrong side of a horse that was known to kick, and then look surprised when he got kicked.

You might find it helpful to read the works of Robert Heinlein and Poul Anderson. The hallmark of a truly great philosopher is that he never writes books on philosophy, and those two are the best. Anderson for how to get along with people who are conspicuously wrong, and Heinlein for when not to.

It can be wonderful to see something about ourselves, even when what we're seeing is not especially wonderful.

Mindfulness is often likened to a mirror; it simply reflects what is there. It is not a process of thinking; it is preconceptual, before thought. One can be mindful of thought. There is all the difference in the world between thinking and knowing that thought is happening, as thoughts chase each other through the mind and the process is mirrored back to us.

The odd thing about understanding was how often time alone seemed seemed to bring it about.

make this all work." "My grandfather used to say that most people don't want to hear the thing that will make it work better," I said. "They