Quotes About Insight

it's hard enough separating the good stuff from the bullshit without adding to the whole mess by wanting to know what you ain't gonna know.

Strangely, when I totally emerged from this slump I couldn't comprehend how I had almost drowned it it.

We see with our eyes. We know with our hearts. Outside...Inside.

What they could tell from an imprint I could barely see was astonishing. "This one old man—short steps," they'd say, touching the ground with a walking stick; or "This is woman carrying baby;" or "This one Swapo—man with gun walks proud. You see?" "Ah, yes, mm-hmm," I nodded, seeing nothing I could remotely identify as a footprint.

Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.

Embracing experiences as opportunities allows us to bring fresh perspectives to the party. And that can be incredibly empowering.

En realidad, pedimos tres cosas: 1) gracia; 2) conocer; 3) rechazar los pecados. "Gracia" significa "don". Rezamos para que Dios nos dé el don de ver a través de los ojos de Dios. Otra forma de expresar esto es que le pedimos a Dios que nos dé el don de ver los dones que Dios nos da.

Los libros, las ideas y los consejos prudentes son importantes, pero el lugar en el que fundamentalmente encontramos a Dios es en lo que nosotros mismos experimentamos.

If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel.

Instead, I've got the Hewitt boys down on paper. So that 100 years from now some reader I don't know can see how dumb they were!

I'm beginning to see how the secret ways and deepest mysteries of God and his kingdom are often revealed off the beaten path of organized religion and frequently missed by the too-smart.

Smart people learn from their mistakes and wise people learn from somebody else's mistakes.

knowledge breaks the world into pieces, while wisdom makes it whole...We are sorely deficient in wisdom, lacking a view of how all these pieces of knowledge connect to make the world a better place.

But knowledge breaks the world into pieces, while wisdom makes it whole.

Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.

If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.

The book you don't read won't help.

It turns out that our intuition is a greater genius than we are.

Maybe I'm getting precognitive in my old age.

Let me start with the overobvious, boxed in a cliché, wrapped in some truisms.

When we can learn from our own problems, we begin to deal with life. When we can learn from other people's problems, we begin to master life.

Problems can only be avoided by exercising good judgment. Good judgment can only be gained by experiencing life's problems.

More than nonfiction, fiction forces us to concentrate in order to find meaning, and therefore deepens our engagement and helps comprehension.

I don't trust my mind for everyday thinking, but I am convinced that it has one very great function, which is to eventually make me aware of astounding things.