Quotes About Insight

I'd already figured out that not understanding my failings was another one of my failings.

A mind is like a puzzle; you must unlock it to read its hidden secrets.

Kingsley nodded. 'Of course. Sophia always did say wisdom had to be earned.

books are passports to a deeper knowledge and understanding of the world

We know more than we can tell.

when the guru raised his cane, the woman reached up and grabbed the stick. She stopped his assault in midair. She expected to be scolded. This was her turn to be surprised. The guru smiled. "Congratulations," he said. "You've graduated. You've learned everything you need to know. You've learned you'll never learn all there is to know and you've learned how to stop the pain.

You now know everything you need to know." "How's that?" the woman asked. "You have learned that you will never learn everything there is to know," he replied. "And you have learned how to stop the pain.

Sometimes when we meet other people—and even after we've gotten to know them—all we see is the tip of the iceberg when we look at their lives. We don't understand the things that are driving them, the unresolved issues from their pasts, and the depth of pain they're in now.

Sometimes maybe you need an experience. The experience can be a person or it can be a drug. The experience opes a door that was there all the time but you never saw it. Or maybe it blasts you into outer space.

Know thyself means this, that you get acquainted with what you know, and what you can do.

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No eye may see dispassionately. There is no comprehension at a glance. Only the recognition of damsel, horse or fly and the assumption of damsel, horse or fly; and so with dreams and beyond, for what haunts the heart will, when it is found, leap foremost, blinding the eye and leaving the main of Life in darkness.

If you have to ask, you will never understand.

True love is a peculiar kind of insight through which we see the wholeness which the person is - at the same time totally accepting the level on which he now expressed himself - without any delusion that the potential is a present reality. True love accepts the person who now is without qualifications, but with a sincere and unwavering commitment to help him achieve his goals of self-unfoldment- which we may see better than he does. - Eric Butterworth

I will tell you this much; it is the moment (not the year or the month, mind you, nor even the hour, but the very second) when a man is grown up, when he sees things as they are (that is, backwards), and feels solidly himself. Do I make myself clear? No matter, it is the Shock of Maturity, and that must suffice for you.

No knowledge is ever wasted.

Think Big" by Dr. Ben Carson T Talents/time: Recognize them as gifts H Hope for good things and be honest I Insight from people and good books N Nice: Be kind to all people K Knowledge: Recognize it as they key to living B Books: Read them actively I In-depth learning skills: Develop them G God: Never get too big for Him

While wisdom dictates the need for education, education does not necessarily make one wise.

creativity is just learning to do something with a different perspective.

Anyone who can't learn from other people's mistakes simply can't learn, and that's all there is to it. There is value in the wrong way of doing things. The knowledge gained from errors contributes to our knowledge base.

I had focused on the failure because I had not yet acquired the wisdom necessary to attain a better perspective.

trend you've noticed and quite possibly one you don't like.

Astute observers of corporate balance sheets are often the first to see business deterioration

Read backwards. When you research a company's financial reports, start reading on the last page and slowly work your way toward the front. Anything