Quotes About Insight

The more you continue to read Scripture, the more you begin to think as He thinks and act as He acts. And that's how, over time, you gain the wisdom of the ages.

Do you want to know the biggest difference between Consequences and Wisdom? Wisdom teaches you the lesson before you make the mistake. On the other hand, consequences demand that you make the mistake first.

If you can figure out how to learn from the bad as well as from the good, you'll learn twice as much in life.'' That's why God put into the Bible raw, unedited accounts of men and women behaving both wisely and foolishly.

A number of people I talked to had predicted it. He was very detail-oriented

The fact that you are willing to say, ''I do not understand, and it is fine,'' is the greatest understanding you could exhibit.

Some people skate to the puck. I skate to where the puck is going to be.

A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.

I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been

Judgments prevent us from seeing the good that lies beyond appearances.

Every proverb speaketh sooth; Dreams and omens mask the truth.

Reason is the wise man's guide, example the fools.

It's like God is trying to tell us something when the most beautiful people in the world are racially mixed.

It's easy to look back and see it, and it's easy to give the advice. But the sad fact is, most people don't look beneath the surface until it's too late.

In the effort to tell a whole story, to see it whole and clear, I have had to imagine more than I have known.

Then she compared the work we did to the peeling of an onion: "It takes a long time, and we peel the layers slowly, incrementally, transparent layers, around and around, peeling until we get to the core," then she smiled, "and there are always tears." (141)

He understood everything: He could keep his eyes open and the buffalo wouldn't appear, or close them and it would.

There are none so blind as those who will not see.

A man could learn all he needed to know about women if he went to the Narberth Rugby Football Club bar for a drink and listened.

Wendy Lawton

Wisdom is found in the least expected places.

What is essential is invisible to the eye.

I open my eyes and stare at the page. I see the black letters. But I also see the pinks and greens and purples and yellows. I can't say I'm surprised.

Truly being able to see the needs of others around you, that is a rare gift. Only when you embrace it will you start to learn who you are, and begin going after what you really want.

She shakes her head. "No. Other people look. You see. Looking isn't the same as seeing." And with that completely bizarre statement, she gets up and leaves. My mouth falls open a little at the abruptness of it all.