Quotes About Insight

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All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times, but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, til they take root in our personal experience.

The joke loses everything when the joker laughs himself.

If you want to know yourself,Just look how others do it;If you want to understand others,Look into your own heart.

Deep meaning lies often in childish play.

The true genius knows only his dependence and weakness, or the bounds of his gifts. The equation of his powers is a negative quantity.

Never lose sight of this important truth, that no one can be truly great until he has gained a knowledge of himself, a knowledge which can only be acquired by occasional retirement.

The more novels you read, the better you were at reading other people's emotions. It was a huge effect. This wasn't just a sign that you were better educated—because reading nonfiction books, by contrast, had no effect on your empathy.

fiction is a kind of empathy gym,

Now I make it a point to go for a walk for an hour every day without my phone or anything else that could distract me. I let my thoughts float and find unexpected connections. I found that, precisely because I give my

It's when you set aside your distractions, he said, that you begin to see what you were distracting yourself from.

what we are sacrificing is depth in all sorts of dimensions…. Depth takes time. And depth takes reflection.

better techniques being discovered every week. One day, when we were walking in San Francisco, Tristan said to me: "Things look pretty bad from the outside, but when you're on the inside, things can look even worse." Tristan was starting to realize: It's not your fault you can't focus. It's by design. Your distraction is their fuel.

three crucial things that are happening during mind-wandering. First, you are slowly making sense of the world.

James Williams was right: our attention is a kind of light, one that clarifies the world and makes it visible to us. In Provincetown I could see more clearly than I ever had before in my life - my own thoughts, my own goals, my own dreams. I want to live in that light - the light of knowing, of achieving our ambitions, of being fully alive - and not in the menacing orange light of it all burning down.

Depth takes time. And depth takes reflection. If you have to keep up with everything and send emails all the time, there's no time to reach depth.

It might look discouraging , but at every relapse, you learn something new.

reading fiction, over time, boosts your empathy.

Intuition is the clear conception of the whole at once.

The proverbial wisdom of the populace in the street, on the roads, and in the markets instructs the ear of him who studies man more fully than a thousand rules ostentatiously displayed.

All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience.

Anecdotes and maxims are rich treasures to the man of the world, for he knows how to introduce the former at fit place in conversation.

Nothing is as terrible to see as ignorance in action.

The first and last thing required of genius is the love of truth.