Quotes About Insight

We all either underestimate each other, or else exaggerate each other's virtues. Very few people are capable of assessing others as they deserve. It is a particular gift. In fact I would even say that only the great are capable of it.

Você olha um relógio. Ele funciona, mostra as horas. Você tenta compreender como ele funciona e o desmonta. Ele não anda mais. E no entanto essa é a única maneira de compreender...

Let there be light. This

is necessarily limited by his lack of knowledge of the circumstances

Reason cannot operate without imagination.

Don't be like the frog. Keep an eye on the big picture. Constantly review what's happening around you, not just what you personally are doing.

Prototyping is a learning experience. Its value lies not in the code produced, but in the lessons learned. That's really the point of prototyping.

Show them a glimpse of the future and you'll get them to rally around.

Our insight into the need of redemption will largely depend upon our knowledge of the terrible nature of the power that has entered our being.

We think we know people, and dismiss the scenes as aberrations, as the lightning strikes of madness, but surely we are wrong. Surely these are the truest moments of their lives.

We are deaf to what life brings us.

Rebuilding of the self in and after depression requires love, insight, work, and, most of all, time.

Rebuilding of the self in and after depression requires love, insight, work, and, most of all, time. Diagnosis

Travel is a set of corrective lenses that helps focus the planet's blurred reality.

I believe that words are strong, that they can overwhelm what we fear when fear seems more awful than life is good. I have turned, with an increasingly fine attention, to love. Love is the other way forward. They need to go together: by themselves pills are a weak poison, love a blunt knife, insight a rope that snaps under too much strain. With the lot of them, if you are lucky, you can save the tree from the vine.

I think all love is one-third projection and one-third acceptance and never more than one-third knowledge and insight.

The powerful have a hard time seeing their own power and its effects. We do not see when our exercise of power is cutting off life and possibility for others; we do not see the ways others are resisting or undermining our own power.

I'm the type who'd be happy not going anywhere as long as I was sure I knew exactly what was happening at the places I wasn't going to. I'm the type who'd like to sit home and watch every party that I'm invited to on a monitor in my bedroom.

everything has it's beauty but not everyone sees it

I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning.

but whoever heeds reproof acquires understanding.

If you don't ask the right question, every answer seems wrong -

Beth had taught Laura to look within herself, and what she found was a revelation.

Maybe there is more truth in how you feel than in what actually happens.