Quotes About Insight

We need to be able to step back from our situations and see them from God's perspective. Then we need to make decisions based on what we know rather than on what we feel.

The Log in My Eye You hypocrite, first get the beam of timber out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the tiny particle out of your brother's eye. MATTHEW 7:5

to reason, to figure, and to be logical, rotating my mind around and around an issue until I am worn out and confused. I want to experience the peace of mind and heart that comes from trusting in God, not in my own human insight and understanding.

Traigo los ojos con que ella miró estas cosas, porque me dio sus ojos para ver:

No one really knows anything about comedy. We know a little bit about what we're doing, but as far as the industry—the exec branch—they don't know how it happens.

With Dan you have to listen to his underneath, you know? Not so much what he says.

One of the lessons Obi-Wan needed to learn was to look beneath the surface. Perhaps this was one way.

Any well-written memoir is worth perusing with an eye to its structure.

Self-revelation without analysis or understanding becomes merely an embarrassment to both reader and writer.

My mother warned me about me.

See? I can read between the lies of the lines of the writing on the wail.

The old adage which says that it is 'whom you know that counts' is far off the mark. It is what you know about whom you know that truly makes difference.

Parents always think they know so much about their kids when really, they hardly know a thing.

It's very foolish to laugh if you don't know what's funny in the first place.

There's a lot of stuff you know and you don't even know how you know it!

It's easy to be clever. But the really clever thing is to be simple.

He who would confine his thought to present time will not understand present reality.

engaging with a work of ancient philosophy can be a two-way street; bringing it into a discussion can enrich that discussion, which also encouraging us to see the work in light of that discussion.

Philosophical attention is focused on a more complex matter: the possession of wisdom (sophia – the wisdom loved by the philosophos). It is assumed, taken to be a matter beyond argument, that wisdom is not just knowing individual facts, but being able to relate them to one another in a unified and structured way, one that involves understanding of a field or area of knowledge.

Sometimes the dying live more fiercely and wisely than the rest of us. (146)

We always do the best we can by the light we have to see by.

Artists are visionaries. We routinely practice a form of faith, seeing clearly and moving toward a creative goal that shimmers in the distance - often visible to us, but invisible to those around us.

We have this idea that we need to be in the mood to write. We don't.

The truest evidence that any civilization ever leaves behind about itself is its art. Art never lies.