Quotes About Insight

I always took the rearmost seat in the classroom - it gave me a good view of things. And I must confess, the location taught me more about human nature and justice than could be learned from the professors' lectures.

But that was always the case – people hardly ever saw their children as they really were.

I can't get to know you means I shall never know what you really think of me. I cannot decipher you because I do not know how you decipher me.

To see someone who does not see is the best way to be intensely aware of what he does not see.

If I had to create a god, I would lend him a "slow understanding": a kind of drip-by-drip understanding of problems. People who understand quickly frighten me.

Amour au bandeau: Ce proverbe est faux. L'amour ouvre grand les yeux, il rend clairvoyant:J'ai, de toi, sur toi, le savoir absolu. Rapport du clerc au maître; tu a tout pouvoir sur moi, mais j'ai tout savoir sur toi.

Who knows? Maybe something valuable in these notes?

Amour au bandeau: Ce proverbe est faux. L'amour ouvre grand les yeux, il rend clairvoyant:J'ai, de toi, sur toi, le savoir absolu. Rapport du clerc au maître; tu as tout pouvoir sur moi, mais j'ai tout savoir sur toi.

those who travel the world hoping to get "blinded by the light" are often blind to the light that's all around them.

People say you have to travel to see the world. Sometimes I think that if you just stay in one place and keep your eyes open, you're going to see just about all that you can handle. —PAUL AUSTER, SMOKE

Washington presented a rare case of a revolutionary leader who, instead of being blinded by political fervor, recognized that fallible human beings couldn't always live up to the high standards he set for them.

To Rockefeller, the least imaginative use of money was to give it to people outright instead of delving into the causes of human misery.

Davison had an uncanny gift in sensing the proper moment for changing the topic, for giving the discussion a timely new turn, thus avoiding a clash or deadlock.

Rockefeller always sees a little further than the rest of us—and then he sees around the corner.

This wasn't someone I had encountered in any biography.

When it comes to understanding others," I said, "we rarely tax our imaginations.

escape the shackles of our prior experience to uncover profound and beautiful simplifications and predictions

He always found a simple, easy way to reach the correct answer.

an old Zen proverb: "When the master points at the Moon, many people never see it at all, they only look at the master.

Ninety percent of asking questions is about listening to answers.

Both were military. That was clear.Reacher could tell by their haircuts. No civilian barber would be as pragmatic or as brutal.

old enough to show some mileage, young enough to still find some amusement in the world.

Reacher said, What have we missed ? Ratcliffe said, A piece of the puzzle. What do you know about computers ? I saw one once.

There's a difference between hearing and listening. And that's our problem. I doubt if Westwood even knows what he's got. He didn't listen, and his notes don't seem to mean much. It's going to be like picking a lock with spaghetti.