Quotes About Insight

Experience teaches us, but we scarcely know what.

The only way to learn is to live.

As Thoreau wrote, 'It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

I'm curious, what made you want to respond the way you did?" as opposed to "Why did you respond that way?

people who are good at it are the ones who have gained experience and who are keen observers.

psychic abilities", or ability to read people based

ability to read people based

reality is that we all make mistakes, which ultimately make us

We all love emotionally stimulating conversations–ones

Futurology always ends up telling you more about your own time than about the future.

Shakespeare was a far better psychologist than Freud, and Jane Austen a far better sociologist than Durkheim

Organic farming also originated in vitalism, its founder Rudolf Steiner believing that in order 'to influence organic life on earth through cosmic and terrestrial forces', it was necessary to 'stimulate vitalizing and harmonizing processes in the soil', an insight he acquired through clairvoyance.

Friedrich Hayek argued, knowledge is dispersed throughout society, because each person has a special perspective. Knowledge can never be gathered together in one place. It is collective, not individual.

To see the object as in itself it really is

What is contemplation? Says Aquinas: "Contemplation regards the simple act of gazing on truth.

Having learned to integrate her readings thoroughly into her own thinking and with years of contemplative study, she creates her own theology. She learns to trust her own experience

We become the books we read.

You are always better off to read a book, anyway, than to meet the person behind it.

What's the use of having eyes if we can't see the world we pass through?

There are truths greater than our own wishes.

Every age, as Allan Bloom observed, is blind to its own worst madness.

Wisdom speaks with a silent tongue.

It held an eye to the future and a tongue to the past.

Wisdom comes with age and experience.