Quotes About Insight

Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain

Like an ability or a muscle, hearing your inner wisdom is strengthened by doing it.

But perhaps revelation often comes when you're not looking for it, resolution when you don't realize you need it.

In a world that thought itself so wise yet behaved so stupidly, it was possible sometimes to believe that only the mad saw matters as they truly were, that only people like my brother were prepared to admit what they saw from the corner of their eye.

not say and Max had known better than to ask.

Nothing is real for me until I've read about it.

Many a serious thinker has been produced in prisons, where we have nothing to do but think.

When our emotions are engaged, we often have trouble seeing things as they are.

All great experience has a guarded entrance and a windowless facade.

Laughable error and profound discovery are born of the same freedom.

As F. Scott Fitzgerald observed, "The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposing ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.

Free advice is worth the price.

It is good sometimes for poetry to disenchant us.

Sometimes it takes a little jolt to make us appreciate what we've got.

There are moments in our lives, there are moments in a day, when we seem to see beyond the usual- become clairvoyant. We reach then into reality. Such are the moments of our greatest happiness. Such are the moments of our greatest wisdom. It is in the nature of all people to have these experiences; but in our time and under the conditions of our lives, it is only a rare few who are able to continue in the experience and find expression for it.

The more simply you see, the more simply you will render. People see too much, scatteringly.

A public which likes to hear something worthwhile when you talk would like to understand something worthwhile when it sees pictures.

Based on these journal entries, it would appear that the main

Once in a while you can get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.

As Max DePree, former CEO of furniture maker Herman Miller, put it, "The first job of a leader is to define reality.

Vu ja de means seeing old things that are inside and outside the company in new ways.

The question is not what you look at, but what you see. —Henry David Thoreau

an idea is creative when it is new to people who use or evaluate it, and (at least some of them) believe it could be valuable to themselves or others.

Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else and thinking something different."23