Quotes About Insight

God's gift of understanding is through thinking, not instead of thinking.

What must be seen is not mere news and not mere knowledge. What must be seen is light.

It seemed to me that much philosophical talk about meaning was just plain hypocritical.

We live and learn, but not the wiser grow.

The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.

If we are not informed we will become deformed

The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see." (Ayn Rand)

Like the Bible says, the prudent see the danger coming….

From the experience of the past we derive instructive lessons for the future.

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, you are a leader.

Write about something you know. Try to leave your readers better off than they were before.

When you find a germ of truth, beware. Those germs can make you sick.

Awakening is a momentary flash of insight when we are granted a glimpse of the universe as God sees it.

In general, I feel if you can't say it clearly you don't understand it yourself.

Adversity makes men wise but not rich.

I read many books, I saw many, many movies. I watched other lives, only through a window.

The smaller the understanding of the situation, the more pretentious the form of expression.

The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world... to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.

To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.

To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance.

Be sure that you go to the author to get at his meaning, not to find yours.

Tell me what you like and I'll tell you what you are.

The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something and tell what it saw in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, but thousands can think for one who can see. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion, all in one.

One man's wit, and all men's wisdom.