Quotes About Insight

Learning agility," as they define it, "is the ability to reflect on experience and then engage in new behaviors based on those reflections.

So often, it's others around us who can see where God wants to grow us even before we see it ourselves.

as my great-uncle says, much of the

Expirience is the oracle of truth

mine what we know about human relationships for ways to understand our relationship with God.

Merton said many times that when it comes to spirituality, experience is the place to start.

The Great Problem Solver, as it turned out, had been at work on a problem that I had only dimly comprehended.

Love is not blind; it is an extra eye, which shows us what is most worthy of regard.

We look at a painting to know the painter; it's his company we are after, not his skill.

His eyes had seen it all. He was 24 years old.

As Edward Albee put it neatly in his play The Zoo Story (1958): What I am going to tell you has something to do with how sometimes it's necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly….

Quotations will tell the full measure of meaning, if you have enough of them.

Words of wisdom are spoken by children at least as often as scientists.

Learned men are the cisterns of knowledge, not the fountainheads.

When we forget that knowledge rises from ignorance and think of it instead as a way of overcoming ignorance, knowledge can have the ironic effect of limiting our vision.

We see nature as genius when we see as genius.

This does not mean that I can not see what you see. On the contrary, it is because I cannot see what you see that I can see at all. The discovery that you are the unrepeatable center of your own vision is simultaneous with the discovery that I am the center of my own.

I want to understand the world from your point of view. I want to know what you know in the way you know it. I want to understand the meaning of your experience, to walk in your shoes, to feel things as you feel them, to explain things as you explain them. Will you become my teacher and help me understand?

The eyes of the owner can see what no one else can see.

As anyone who has ever read a used book knows, nothing exposes readers to quite such a high degree of nakedness as the underlinings and marginalia they live behind...

People who are smart get into Mensa. People who are really smart look around and leave.

The sleep of reason brings forth monsters

Dreams come to tell us something about our lives that we are missing.

It says that whenever people cross our paths, there is always a message for us. Chance encounters do not exist. But how we respond to these encounters determines whether we're able to receive the message. If we have a conversation with someone who crosses our path and we do not see a message pertaining to our current questions, it does not mean there was no message. It only means we missed it for some reason.