Quotes About Insight

Judgement comes from experience, and great judgement comes from bad experience.

To show the world what long experience gains, requires not courage, though it calls for pains; but at life's outset to inform mankind is a bold effort of a valiant mind.

She is a water bug on the surface of life.

Ask someone you'd like to know to list five people they would most like to meet. It will tell you a lot about them.

During really difficult times in my life when I start questioning why I am struggling with something, I often turn to books to understand myself better.

Logical thinking will not be enough to get answers to the questions that matter most in life. We need revelation from God.

The end of reading is not more books but more life.

I'm hopefully making the reader feel a lot about the characters and then about their own life.

If life is envisioned as a continuously running motion picture, the keeping of a notebook stops the action and allows a meaningful scene to be explored frame by frame.

Life, if you live it right, keeps surprising you, and the thing that keeps surprising you the most…is yourself

The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.

Your whole life informs your eye.

It is amazing how many hints and guides and intuitions for living come to the sensitive person who has ears to hear what his body is saying.

Our whole business in this Life is to restore to health the eye of the heart whereby God may be seen.

I've spent my life cultivating knowledge of myself. But the more I know myself, the more utterly mysterious I become.

By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.

Those that have done nothing in life, are not qualified to judge of those that have done little

It's pretty intense writing about my own life, my own struggles.

The surface of things is not where attention should rest.

These handwritten words in the pages of my journal confirm that from an early age I have experienced each encounter in my life twice: once in the world, and once again on the page.

Diversification is protection against ignorance. It makes little sense if you know what you are doing.

Be a life long student, read as many books as possible.

Life just makes so much more sense with black framed glasses on.

The inner life of any great thing will be incomprehensible to me until I develop and deepen an inner life of my own.