Quotes About Insight

Each of the world religions has its own particular genius, its own special insight into the nature and requirements of compassion, and has something unique to teach us.

The best historian is he who combines knowledge of the evidence with the largest intellect, the warmest human sympathy and the highest imaginative powers.

A writer without interest or sympathy for the foibles of his fellow man is not conceivable as a writer.

I'm not looking for sympathy, just understanding.

Is there anything more dangerous than sympathetic understanding?

The secrets of life are not shown except to sympathy and likeness.

The highest that we can attain to is not Knowledge, but Sympathy with Intelligence.

I do not think that one is likely to write a good biography unless one feels some sympathy with its subject.

...our enjoyment of the great works of literature depends more upon the depth of our sympathy than upon our understanding.

Chekhov will seek out the key situation in the life of a cabman or a charwoman, and make them glow for a brief moment in the tender light of his sympathy.

Anyone who has gone through great suffering is bound to have a greater sympathy and understanding of the problems of mankind.

No person was every rightly understood until they had been first regarded with a certain feeling, not of tolerance, but of sympathy.

Imagination is the means of deep insight and sympathy, the power to conceive and express images removed from normal objective reality.

To understand is to possess the thing understood, first by sympathy and then by intelligence.

Intercession is about putting ourselves in other's shoes or having sympathy with others. But intercessions are about having the mind of God and see things through His perspective

What she saw, she felt. Her eyes went straight to her heart.

All of life is education and everybody is a teacher and everybody is forever a pupil.

Wherever you go you will find your teacher, as long as you have the eyes to see and the ears to hear.

The most important single factor influencing learning is what the learner already knows. Ascertain this and teach him accordingly.

Teachers must be encouraged - I almost said 'freed', to pursue an education that strives for depth of understanding.

Experience is not the best teacher; evaluated experience is.

A good teacher teaches people how to see, not what to see.

A teacher is never too smart to learn from his pupils.

A good teacher is like a good artist. They go right to the most difficult part of whatever's going on.