Quotes About Insight

We seek relief from a problem, but we don't get to the root of the problem, asking the Lord what He wants to show us in it.

Listen to Them

Remember, life gives us warnings for a reason. Learn from this. Do things differently.

Intelligence is the door to freedom and alert attention is the mother of intelligence.

Learning what really makes a dog like him tick had forced me to grasp more about what made me tick. I often didn't like what I saw in me, but I was determined to do right by him. Which meant, as Carolyn had suggested, that I had to be better. Orson, like all my dogs, was a measure, a barometer, a mirror of me.

Hidden in the physical work space, in the user's words, and in the tools they use are the beautiful gems of knowledge that can create revolutionary, breakthrough products or simply fix existing, broken products. People do strange things - unexpected things - and being there to witness and record these minute and quick moments of humanity is simply invaluable

vision led, customer informed.

But you don't want a retrospective, and you really don't want a summary. You want a rich, cohesive, detailed, and real view into the person's personal life or job.

A truth concluded will die for truth is not a destiny but a journey

I'm a big believer in education, period.

You're not doing a scientific paper; you're doing a journal, if you will, of one man finding his way through parallel worlds.

If we learn to read the birds-and their behaviors and vocalizations-through them, we can read the world at large... if we replace collision with connection, learn to read these details, feel at home, relax, and are respectful--ultimately the birds will yield to us the first rite of passage: a close encounter with an animal otherwise wary of our presence.

He would negotiate with the devil if he thought he could get a hearing," Young said.

What we know about fishes is only a tiny slice of what they know.

Shakespeare called the eyes the windows of the soul.

Yes - I've learned from my mistakes, and I'm sure I could repeat them perfectly.

Se você fica sabendo de uma coisa — e isso é uma lei natural —, não pode mais não saber .

This dictate of common sense.

but his mouth was that of the just, which bringeth forth wisdom, and whose lips dispense knowledge.

One forgets that though a clown never imitates a wise man, the wise man can imitate the clown.

I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, not to hate them, but to understand them.

With such a vast and wonderful library spread out before us, we often skim books or read just the reviews. We might already have encountered the Greatest Idea, the insight that would have transformed us had we savored it, taken it to heart, and worked it into our lives.

It is easy to see the faults of others, but difficult to see one's own faults. One shows the faults of others like chaff winnowed in the wind, but one conceals one's own faults as a cunning gambler conceals his dice.5

As Epley and Dunning had found, people really are open to information that will predict the behavior of others, but they refuse to adjust their self-assessments.