Quotes About Insight

Isn't it possible—sometime—to try to know too much? There is such a thing as looking too closely, mon ami. And then we pay the price.

By polygons I mean,' said Judy, 'that a question is not a figure with one side only. It is a cube, a heptagon, an octagon. You and I see just one side of a thing and jump to the doing of it. We must learn to walk around the five or the seven or the eight sides it may have and study each before we move an inch.

Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person.

What we lack in knowledge, we make up for in data. We

We are always in search of the redeeming formula, the crystallizing thought.

Lord, give me wisdom, not knowledge. Or rather the knowledge that leads to wisdom and true happiness and not the kind that leads to power.

Write about what you don't know about what you know.

Through travel I first became aware of the outside world; it was through travel that I found my own introspective way into becoming a part of it.

One place understood helps us understand all places better

You can only predict things after they have happened.

Experience has two things to teach. The first is that we must correct a great deal and the second, that we must not correct too much.

The source of genius is imagination alone, the refinement of the senses that sees what others do not see, or sees them differently.

Pourquoi ne pas profiter des contrepoisons de la civilisation, les bons livres.

Dans la peinture, il s'établit comme un pont mystérieux entre l'âme des personnages et celle du spectateur.

So understood, the art of archery is rather like a preparatory school for Zen, for it enables the beginner to gain a clearer view, through the works of his own hands, of events which are not in themselves intelligible.

That's why I tell stories: to create readiness, to nudge the people toward receptive insight. In their present state they can stare till doomsday and not see it, listen till they're blue in the face and not get it.

I do not have more information after reading a poem; I have more experience.

But to those who can't see it yet, everything comes in stories, creating readiness, nudging them toward receptive insight.

Without good direction, people lose their way; the more wise counsel you follow, the better your chances.

Skilled living gets its start in the Fear-of-GOD, insight into life from knowing a Holy God.

I wish he'd show you how wisdom looks from the inside, for true wisdom is mostly 'inside.

The truth must dazzle gradually or every man be blind. Emily Dickinson

Drinking from the beautiful chalice of knowledge is better than adorning oneself with gold and rare gems.

Isn't it interesting that all of the biblical prophets and psalmists were poets?