Quotes About Insight

although our age far surpasses all previous ages in knowledge, there has been no correlative increase in wisdom.

The intoxicating delight of sudden understanding.

You can live a lifetime and, at the end of it, know more about other people than you know about yourself.

Youth was a condition defined by the fact that you don't know what you don't know until it's too late.

Paul didn't just see emotions. He saw the need they represented.

Wisdom is the focus of the perceptive, but a fool's eyes roam to the ends of the earth. Proverbs 17:24

Unfortunately, human hearts seem remarkably resistant to wisdom.

I believe the more we "see" God at work, the more we'll believe; and the more we believe, the more we're liable to see.

Delusion never delivers.

Then he opened their minds so they could understand the Scriptures." I'm not sure original definitions get much better than the one for understand in Luke 24:45. Meditate on this definition: "The comprehending activity of the mind denoted by suniemi entails the assembling of individual facts into an organized whole, as collecting the pieces of a puzzle and putting them together. The mind grasps concepts and sees the proper relationship between them.

Short stories are often strong meat. Reading them, even listening to them, can be challenging, by which I do not mean hard work, simply that a certain amount of nerve and maturity is required.

Somehow I had a lot of the skills that I didn't know were required for directing. I didn't realize that my life had been leading in that direction.

You've got to do the research. You've got to understand the market place, know your competitors.

Why do we do basic research? To learn about ourselves.

To me, the Quran is a research book.

Preparation is everything. You don't like being interviewed by someone who hasn't done their research.

When you're working well, you don't do research. Whatever you need comes to you.

Research can be a big clunker. It's difficult to know how you can make the historical light.

Everything I know, I write about. My only research is what I did.

I will not write about anyplace in the world unless I've been there to personally research it.

What I've tried to do is combine both my personal experiences with scientific research. I like to cross the divide between the personal world and the scientific world.

Reading papers and memorizing them doesn't make you a good researcher.

When researchers try to break down what is happening at Mosaic, far too often they see the skin and miss the heart.

I enjoy the act of research. I'm researching as a means to an end, but I literally just enjoy reading about how people lived in the past and understanding it better.