Quotes About Insight

If I give you a hint and tell you it's a hint, it will be information.

He looked through the bars thoughtfully, then back at me. "I'll never forget how she went to you after Lois's funeral that day," he said. "She's a very intuitive little girl, and that moment told me something about you." "It did?" I asked. He nodded. "It told me you're someone worth fighting for," he said.

Those who don't know the mistakes of the past won't be able to enjoy it when they make them again in the future.

At times she's so basic, at others so wise it frightens me that I got so far in this world without the benefit of such knowledge.

I want to hold my life up alongside hers in order to, as she wrote, reach a point where i begin to see me-and her-in a more understandable light.

What better way to get to know someone than through her choice and treatment of books?

I know there are people who don't read fiction at all, and I find it hard to understand how they can bear to be inside the same head all the time.

Writing is more about discovery than invention.

To learn more about them, people should use you.

The arrogance of ignorance.

Thucydides had grasped that vital historical insight that groups of people behave differently and have different motivations from individual human beings, and that they often behave far more discreditably than individuals. He

You listen to people, you listen so deeply that you can hear their past lives, The crackle of their funeral pyres,

I don't set trends. I just find out what they are and exploit them.

But prayer is more. Prayer is the vision of the believer. It gives eyes to our faith. In prayer we see beyond ourselves and focus spiritual eyes on God's infinite power.

Country music has always been the best shrink that 15 bucks can buy.

Erfahrung ist die Summe der Dummheiten, die man im Bedarfsfall wieder anwendet." [ ARD Morgenmagazin , May 2002]

The wise man is the one who sees reality as it is, and who sees into the depths of things. That is why only that man is wise who sees reality in God. To understand reality is not the same as to know about outward events. It is to perceive the essential nature of things. The best-informed man is not necessarily the wisest.

What will really matter is whether those in power expect more from people's folly than from their wisdom and independence of mind.

When God opens our eyes for his word, we see into a world of miracles.

Insight, knowledge, truth without love is nothing—it is not even truth, for truth is God, and God is love. So truth without love is a lie; it is nothing. "Speaking the truth in love," says Paul in another letter [Eph. 4:15]. Truth just for oneself, truth spoken in enmity and hate is not truth but a lie, for truth brings us into God's presence, and God is love. Truth is either the clarity of love, or it is nothing.

I am not an adolescent, nor a romantic. I analyze objectively.

It is not the things we see, but the mind we see them with, which makes the real interest of travelling.

Perché con tutta la tua intelligenza tu sei l'uomo più stupido che io abbia mai incontrato. [...]

Wise kings generally have wise counselors and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one.