Quotes About Insight

the more we know of correct principles, the greater is our personal freedom to act wisely.

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.

The leader is the one who climbs the tallest tree, surveys the entire situation, and yells, Wrong jungle!

Again, 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.

Covey believed that timeless principles do indeed exist, and that the search for them is not folly, but wisdom

our conviction well: "Search your own heart with all diligence for out of it flow the issues of life.

power is a dreadful thing, and that the knowledge of power dims the seeing of the wise.

Unearned knowledge is perilous. Only by the seeking and gaining of it may its uses be understood, its true worth measured.

BUT IF YOU'RE SMART, YOU'LL LEARN YOUR LESSON WELL.

I read to see myself in other people's lives.

One is always a long way from solving a problem until one actually has the answer.

El consejo es lo que pedimos cuando ya sabemos la respuesta, pero desearíamos no saberla. ERICA JONG MANN, ESCRITORA

Sanity's a virginity of the mind

I knew books could see people around them, they ground their tiny teeth, tried to rattle like windows, stories to tell.

Clever be the tongue that can speak without talking. - old saying

that most precious of human commodities—knowledge.

His world was distinctly male. His experience with women minimal. They were a different breed, of that he was sure

didn't need to wallow with the pigs to know it stunk in the pen.

Knowledge is far more powerful than any weapon

Anything that provides you with an edge over others is worth knowing.

A] book is not merely a book, it is the sun as well.

Belief may serve as a useful stopgap measure in the absence of actual experience, but once you see … [it] becomes unnecessary.

By our very attempt to grasp an explanation, we leave things out.

Don't worry about figuring out anything. It is not necessary to figure anything out, or to theorize, or even look out there. You need only to look at your assumptions, your unexamined beliefs.