Quotes About Insight

Enlighten your life with history.

I find I always have to write something on a steamed mirror.

It's amazing how right you can be about a person you don't know; it's only the people you do know who confuse you.

I don't always understand other people's motives. I will repeat that for my own benefit, if you don't mind. I don't always understand other people's motives.

But what the hell, I told myself, it wasn't as if I were one of them or even competing with them, for heaven's sake, I was merely a disinterested spectator at the Banquet of Life. The scientist dropping into the zoo at feeding time. That is what I told myself.

I felt experienced without feeling that I, personally, had been through anything.

It's amazing how right you can sometimes be about a person you don't know; it's only the people you do know who confuse you.

Art is not an object, but a way of looking at an object.

just know" how things got to be the way they are or how they are going to turn out. This is that "sixth sense" people talk about. It can be wrong, of course, just as your eyes and ears can be wrong, but your intuition is right often enough that HSPs tend to be visionaries, highly intuitive artists, or inventors, as well as more conscientious, cautious, and wise people.

It was as if [highly sensitive subjects] found it natural to look beyond their cultural expectations to how things "really are.

This greater awareness of the subtle tends to make you more intuitive, which simply means picking up and working through information in a semiconscious or unconscious way. The result is that you often "just know" without realizing how.

Psychotherapy in its broadest sense is a collection of paths toward wisdom and wholeness.

And while a difficult past may seem at first to hamper our living our life's purpose, sometimes it serve the purpose, too. Or it is the purpose—to fully experience and understand a certain kind of human problem.

HSPs can be instantly aware, whether they wish to be or not, of the mood, the friendships and enmities, the freshness or staleness of the air, the personality of the one who arranged the flowers.

Logic is one thing and commonsense another.

Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day -- wisdom consists of not exceeding the limit.

There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.

To know when to be generous and when to be firm -- this is wisdom.

Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.

If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.

I do not read a book; I hold a conversation with the author.

The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.

The best service a book can render you is not to impart truth, but to make you think it out for yourself.

It's funny how dogs and cats know the inside of folks better than other folks do, isn't it?