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Quotes About Insight

SEEING THE TRUTH MEANS looking at everything for the first time, every time.
~ Augusten Burroughs
Regret can power your telescope, changing what you see.
~ Augusten Burroughs
It takes two people looking in all directions at once to see everything.
~ Augusten Burroughs
He liked to observe emotions; they were like red lanterns strung along the dark unknown of another's personality, marking vulnerable points.
~ Ayn Rand
The more you learn, the more you know that you know nothing.
~ Ayn Rand
The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see
~ Ayn Rand
The causes of illusions are not pretty to discover. They're either vicious or tragic.
~ Ayn Rand
Rationality is the recognition of the fact that nothing can alter the truth and nothing can take precedence over that act of perceiving it.
~ Ayn Rand
The secrets of this earth are not for all men to see, but only for those who will seek them.
~ Ayn Rand
I am not brave enough to be a coward, she said. I see the consequences too clearly
~ Ayn Rand
We cannot say what they meant, for there are no words for their meaning, but we know it without words and we knew it then.
~ Ayn Rand
Keating stood still, because he understood for the first time what it was that artists spoke about when they spoke of beauty.
~ Ayn Rand
The unrecognized genius—that's an old story. Have you ever thought of a much worse one—the genius recognized too well? ... That a great many men are poor fools who can't see the best—that's nothing. One can't get angry at that. But do you understand about the men who see it and don't want it?
~ Ayn Rand
Words are a lens to focus one's mind.
~ Ayn Rand
The fastest way to change is to laugh at your own folly
~ Spencer Johnson
Haw empezaba a comprender la diferencia entre actividad y productividad.
~ Spencer Johnson
Some times you have to believe it before you can see it
~ Spencer Johnson
Smell The Cheese Often So You Know When It Is Getting Old
~ Spencer Johnson
Look At How You Feel About What Happened In The Past. Learn Something Valuable From It. Use What You Have Learned To Make Your Work And Life More Enjoyable Today.
~ Spencer Johnson
Everything must have in it a sharp seasoning of truth.
~ St. Jerome
History is that thing that, in hindsight, one always saw coming; a few seem able to glimpse it before it has settled on its destination
~ Stacy Schiff
Everyone Has Wisdom Enough to Manage the Affairs of His Neighbors
~ Stacy Schiff
Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.
~ Stan Smith
From strawberries under torture one may extract all sorts of things.
~ Stanis?aw Lem