Quotes About Insight

so profound an insight into God that for a century and a half he was branded a dangerous atheist...

As unnecessary as a well is to a village on the banks of a river, so unnecessary are all scriptures to someone who has seen the truth.

We must look at the lens through we see the world, as well as the world we see, and that the lens itself shapes how we interpret the world.

Being is seeing in the human dimension.

Animals do not possess this ability. We call it "self-awareness" or the ability to think about your very thought process.

Suddenly I saw things differently, and because I saw differently, I thought differently, I felt differently, I behaved differently.

Principles are the simplicity on the far side of complexity.

T. S. Eliot's observation: We must not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we began and to know the place for the first time.

Just listen and seek to understand.

There are some people who interpret "proactive" to mean pushy, aggressive, or insensitive; but that isn't the case at all. Proactive people aren't pushy. They're smart, they're value driven, they read reality, and they know what's needed.

Wisdom is your perspective on life, your sense of balance

writing crystallizes thinking and distills meaning, and bridges the gap between the conscious and the unconscious.

He looked into his own head and thought he saw the world

rediscover the truth of T. S. Eliot's observation: We must not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we began and to know the place for the first time.

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T. S. Eliot expresses so beautifully my own personal discovery and conviction: "We must not cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we began and to know the place for the first time.

Let people learn from your mistakes or the mistakes of others. Point out the potential failure paths, what not to do, but don't tell them what to do.

Viktor Frankl shared a brilliant insight about developing mission statements. He said, "The thing I learned is that you don't invent your mission, you detect it. You uncover it, as it were." You see, everyone has special gifts, unique qualities, and characteristics. And they need to work inwardly until they detect those aspects.

Until we see ourselves from the outside objectively, we will automatically project our motives on other people.

At the height of maturity, there is no difference between knowledge and sentiment.

I am convinced we will discover and rediscover the truth of T. S. Eliot's observation: We must not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we began and to know the place for the first time.

Through deep thought and the exercise of faith and prayer, we began to see our son in terms of his own uniqueness.

We have such a tendency to rush in, to fix things up with good advice. But we often fail to take the time to diagnose, to really, deeply understand the problem first. If I were to summarize in one sentence the single most important principle I have learned in the field of interpersonal relations, it would be this: Seek first to understand, then to be understood. This principle is the key to effective interpersonal communication.

Simple way to understand paradigms is to see them as maps.