Quotes About Insight

Cuanto más sabemos sobre el mundo, más pequeños e insignificantes para su funcionamiento descubrimos que somos.

The meaning we find in life is not transacendent, but it's no less meaningful for that.

To beat your enemy, you must understand what your enemy wants.

My first big break came when I was five years old. It's taken me more than seventy years to realise that. You see, at five I first learnt to read. It's that simple and it's that profound.

Some of you reading this will relate to

I thought I had made a mistake, but I was mistaken.

In every field of human endeavor, the more visionary the work, the less likely it is to be quickly understood and embraced by lesser minds.

creativity is "just connecting things.

every field of human endeavor, the more visionary the work, the less likely it is to be quickly understood and embraced by lesser minds.

Before you can connect dots, you need to have dots to connect. The more material you're exposed to in the world, the more grist you'll have for your imagination mill.

There's a lesson here. In every field of human endeavor, the more visionary the work, the less likely it is to be quickly understood and embraced by lesser minds.

illuminates the path to greatness via a unique, accessible, and practical decoding of genius.

A creative genius is just better at connecting the dots than others are. That's

By the end of his research, Barrios

field of human endeavor, the more visionary the work, the less likely it is to be quickly understood and embraced by lesser minds.

Before you can connect dots, you need to have dots to connect.

every field of human endeavor, the more visionary the work, the less likely it is to be quickly understood and embraced by lesser minds. For one reason or another, many people just "don't get it.

So if we have anything original to offer, it's to speak from our own life about the society we're in.

Long ago, in conversation with one of the Shonto, Hakata observed that most people preferred an ill considered answer to an intelligent question. I have come to Seh to seek truths, and in this endeavor I am prepared to ask difficult questions and then to live without immediate answers if that is what is required.

When you look at the dark side, careful you must be ... for the dark side looks back.

But superior evolution does not free us from situations that challenge us or occasions on which we must act in ways we find abhorrent. All it gives us is the capacity to see with greater clarity why we do what we must do—to see beyond the present, to where our actions might lead. The evolution we have wrought for ourselves gives us perspective, nothing more, and the new altitude from which we observe the world requires a keen sense of balance. We remain

A shortsighted person can do little more than follow the road she's on; someone blessed with clear sight sees all the turnoffs she could take—and numerous alternate paths besides, running parallel to the one beneath her feet. One is only lost when one has some perception, no matter how dim, that there is somewhere else one should be.

A memoir, at its heart, is written in order to figure out who you are.

Notwendig man viel Narren findet, Denn viel sind an sich selbst erblindet, Die mit Gewalt wollen weise sein, Da jedermann mit klarem Schein Wohl ihre Narrheit sieht.