Quotes About Insight

Real education happens when you pick up a fact here, and another fact there, and put them together and get an insight.

I like smart movies about smart people, and enjoy it when most of the facts are on the table and we can contemplate them together.

To become the founder of a new religion one must be psychologically infallible in one's knowledge of a certain average type of souls who have not yet recognized that they belong together.

There is more to be learnt from every page of David Hume than from the collected philosophical works of Hegel, Herbart, and Schleiermacher are taken together.

For me, reading books and writing them are tied together. The words of other writers teach me and refresh me and inspire me.

Books hold most of the secrets of the world, most of the thoughts that men and women have had. And when you are reading a book, you and the author are alone together-just the two of you.

Much tongue and much judgment seldom go together.

You have a disconcerting way of looking at me so directly that I feel as though you could see right through into my soul, Mr. Cunningham, she said. I suppose it is the artist in you.

Henry noticed the gleam in his eyes . . . she had decided that it was definitely a sign that he was amused. He never showed any other sign.

You never did collapse. Only your eyes showed what was going on inside.

La sabiduría viene de la experiencia, y hasta el momento sólo tengo veintiocho años de experiencia.

If he ever grew to understand himself, Hugo decided, it would be a miracle of the first order. Not

And I believe he has suffered in his life. He has a sensitivity to the hurts of others that can have come only from personal experience.

She had to confess that she had felt out of her depth with the duke. His reactions were not as open and predictable as were those of other people she knew. She had found it impossible to guess what he was thinking.

active wisdom --an entire cohort with something new to offer to the world as years of experience combined with continuing health. [p. 52]

By comparison he could read her like an illustrated children's story.

If you learn something from each person you meet and from each book you read, you will be the best-educated person in the world.

It wasn't in John Candotti's nature to be suspicious of motives. There were people who loved to play organizational chess, to pit one person against another, to maneuver and plot and anticipate everyone else's next three moves, but John had no talent for the game

There is simply no alternative. We have to know them.

The nations of the earth that most vigorously foul the planetary nest and those in possession of the most destructive arsenals ought to be governed only by young women with small kids. More than anyone else, such mothers must live in the future, and they also face each day the realities of raw human nature.. This gives them a special insight

Knowing things about people is not the same as understanding them

wisdom begins when you discover the difference between 'That doesn't make sense' and 'I don't understand.' Ã¢â'¬Â "Then I must be very wisdom. I don't understand anything.

But life can give a lot. If you can't see inside the heart no matter how you look, then why not look? Why not see as much as you can? How is that disrespectful? If you are only given one look, shouldn't you look as fully as you can?

Funny, when you finally faced reality, it was amazing how clearly you could see things.