Quotes About Insight

The secret to success is to know something nobody else knows.

a twinkle in her eye. "Someday I may be old too!

We, on both sides, wrongly imagine that empathy with the "other" side brings an end to clearheaded analysis when, in truth, it's on the other side of that bridge that the most important analysis can begin.

Those who have spent time arguing instead of studying things as they are show all too clearly that they are incapable of seeing much at all.

poseía un conocimiento más completo de los resortes de la Naturaleza que su amigo.

Este problema, hora es ya de revelarlo, no era otro que el origen del pensamiento.

Garbage, you know, is very revealing.It beats the shit out of tarot cards.

We all need someone to point out that the emperor is wearing no clothes. That's the poet's job.

We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours.

No mind, however loving, could bear to see plainly into all the recesses of another mind.

Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like.

To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and where previously the brain held a dead fact, the soul grasps a living truth! At moments we are all artists.

If we do not know or even want to know the aims that the artist was pursuing through his work – his aim to inform, to convince, to influence people – then we do not get much farther in understanding his art than the ignorant spectator who judges a football game simply by the beauty of the players' movement.

How much do you know about Shakespeare?'' I once asked a friend who has committed much of her life to studying the Bard. She replied, ''Not as much as he knows about me''. Remember this the next time someone tells you literature is useless.

Ze herinnert het zich nog goed, ze fietste naar huis en ze dacht: ik ben eenzaam. Ze belde Roland en hij zei: 'Dat is heel naar voor je, maar op lange termijn is het niet slecht. Eenzaamheid is de voorwaarde voor ware productiviteit. Je moet ervan leren te genieten, net als van gember.

Abstraction allows man to see with his mind what he cannot see physically with his eyes.

Grace, combined with insight and choice, is the means of change."32

Biography should be written by an acute enemy.

A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend after telling.

So what do the young hotshots need? Old people on product teams, old people in marketing, and old people in the C-suite. They need not just whiz-bang ideas but actual wisdom that only comes with years in the school of hard knocks.

The idea of moving to instruction later in life is a theme one finds in the great wisdom literatures from East to West.

The transcendent effects of a pilgrimage appear after a few days, in waves of perception

They need not just whiz-bang ideas but actual wisdom that only comes with years in the school of hard knocks.

he found himself dispensing wisdom more than knowledge—advice about life and leadership.