Quotes About Insight

When all the teachers are gone, who will be your teacher?The student replied: "Everything!Kobun, paused, then said: "No, you".

If you hold a cat by the tail, you learn things you can't learn any other way.--Mark Twain

People don't change just because you know more about them.

Every travel gives me new thought into life.

Once you understand life--you understand life's potential.

With words, with language, we could extract a great deal of knowledge about our living situation without always having to experience its harsh lessons directly.

We have a great number of ways of being intelligent, many of which don't show up on IQ tests.

Not to know me argues yourselves unknown.

If you give me enough years and a wise wife, I can eventually start piecing things together. And it helps if that wife pieces them together for me and simply tells me.

Intuition becomes increasingly valuable in the new information society precisely because there is so much data.

We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge.

Strategic planning is worthless -- unless there is first a strategic vision.

When our eyes are graced with wonder, the world reveals its wonders to us. There are people who see only dullness in the world and that is because their eyes have already been dulled. So much depends on how we look at things. The quality of our looking determines what we come to see.

The backstory of the back-and-forth during composition [...] makes it clear that Washington's insistence on elevating public education was based on a deep and urgent insight: that democracies' success depended on an educated and enlightened population.

for no viewpoint has a vantage point (an advantage) from which it can experience all the traditions or gain true insight into the doctrine and practice of other peoples' faiths. No single perspective is ever capable of rendering judgment about other religions. A Mah?y?na philosophy of religions is a no-philosophy. It is a philosophy that empties philosophy.4

The simple insight that management is not leadership (chapter 2) is better understood today, but not nearly as well as is needed. Management makes a system work. It helps you do what you know how to do. Leadership builds systems or transforms old ones.

Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable.

Revelation births creativity.

I count myself as one of the number of those who learn as they write and write as they learn.

It isn't the size of the window that determines how much you see. It's which way the window is facing, and how close you are, and whether the glass is clear.

An eye for beauty instead of bleakness might have lightened some of his load.

Asking questions is the key to understanding.

What I have learned from about twenty years of serious reading is this: It is sentences that change my life, not books. What changes my life is some new glimpse of truth, some powerful challenge, some resolution to a long-standing dilemma, and these usually come concentrated in a sentence or two. I do not remember 99% of what I read, but if the 1% of each book or article I do remember is a life-changing insight, then I don't begrudge the 99%.

Deaf people can be the sharpest hearers and blind people can be the sharpest see-ers. It's not physical. Dullness of hearing, you remember from 6:12 and 3:18, is the failure to make use of the Word heard to nurture faith and bear the fruit of obedience.