Quotes About Insight

I was free, yes, but what good was freedom without knowledge?

Lee Not being able to speak is not the same as not speaking. You seem as if you like to talk. I like to let people talk who like to talk. It makes it easier to find out how full of shit they are.

Everyone says she's mad.' 'How do they know?' I asked. 'Because she's different from other people, I suppose.' 'Is that being mad?' 'No. Not really, I suppose madness is not seeing things as others see them.

Well, it often happens that people with good eyesight fail to see what is right in front of them. They have too much to take in, I suppose. Whereas people who cannot see (or see very little) have to take in only the essentials, whatever registers most tellingly on their remaining senses.

Well, it often happens that people with good eyesight fail to see what is right in front of them.

No. Not really, I suppose madness is not seeing things as others see them.

Well, it often happens that people with good eyesight fail to see what is right in front of them. They have too much to take in, I suppose. Whereas people who cannot see (or see very little) have to take in only the essentials, whatever registers tellingly on their remaining senses.

Every problem has a solution hidden away somewhere, and if only you look hard enough you will find

For a room without a view is hardly a living place—merely a place of transit.

Lessons learned are not lessons learned unless you learn them.

Listen once in a while. It's amazing what you can hear.

If you yourself are not a victim, you cannot claim to see the world as the victim does.

If you know what people need you have gotten more knowledge of a fortune than any amount of capital can give you.

A frightening thought had been growing in me. I'd always assumed that I was the central character in my own story but now it occurred to me that I might in fact be only a minor character in someone else's.

I prefer to be noticed, some day, first for my ideas and second for my good eye . . .

You just have to pay attention to what people need and what has not been done.

To separate yourself from your weakness and look at it objectively is a very powerful thing.

One stupid woman recognizes another one from a distance.

a little knowledge would unlock the gates to vast and unsuspected gates of ignorance.

Now I have seen what peace is like, I understand why you come to Britannia.

The great illusion of leadership is to think that man can be led out of the desert by someone who has never been there. HENRI NOUWEN, THE WOUNDED HEALER

Most people do not see things as they are; rather, they see things as they are. Richard Rohr

study of Scripture is important, but if we stop there, we will eventually hit a wall spiritually. Information

The great illusion of leadership is to think that man can be led out of the desert by someone who has never been there.