Quotes About Insight

Unsettling are the days in which everyone is an expert.

The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by my failures.

I am positive that in the vast majority of cases we are hammering nails with microscopes.

The english word thanks comes from the same root word as think. Maybe if leaders were more 'think-ful' about the contribution of others, they would be more 'thankful' to them.

The scandal of education is that every time you teach something, you deprive a [student] of the pleasure and benefit of discovery.

Take your Bible and take your newspaper, and read both. But interpret newspapers from your Bible.

Time and reflection change the sight little by little 'till we come to understand.

Time is the wisest of all things that are; for it brings everything to light.

This life's dim windows of the soul Distorts the heavens from pole to pole And leads you to believe a lie When you see with, not through, the eye.

The vision of the eye is limited; the vision of the heart transcends all barriers of time and space.

We have two eyes to see two sides of things, but there must be a third eye which will see everything at the same time and yet not see anything. That is to understand Zen.

Contrary to general belief, an artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs.

All walking is discovery. On foot we take the time to see things whole.

By the time a bartender knows what drink a man will have before he orders, there is little else about him worth knowing.

Time is the wisest of all counselors.

One should never impose one's views on a problem; one should rather study it, and in time a solution will reveal itself.

It has taken me half a lifetime merely to find out what is best worth doing, and a good slice out of another half to puzzle out the ways of doing it.

If you have the same problem for a long time, maybe it's not a problem. Maybe it's a fact.

Before you invest in something, invest the time to understand it

There are many things I've written that I didn't really understand until a long time later.

Insight doesn't happen often on the click of the moment, like a lucky snapshot, but comes in its own time and more slowly and from nowhere but within.

The only time I know that something is true is the moment I discover it in the act of writing.

There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.

I have had my results for a long time: but I do not yet know how I am to arrive at them.