Quotes About Insight

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Lately it seems there are mysteries everywhere, as if you've only just opened your eyes.

It's always easier to see a lack of wisdom in others than it is to see it in ourselves. That's why we must pray daily for wisdom.

A wise man will hear and increase learning, and a man of understanding will attain wise counsel. PROVERBS 1:5

Almighty God, help me to know Your laws. Teach me Your Word so that I understand it better every time I read it. Give me insight into Your ways so that they become part of me. Speak to my heart if my thoughts, words, or actions start getting off the mark. Keep me on the right path so that my prayers are never detestable to You.

Knowing the truth liberates us from all possibility of deception and illuminates any darkness in our life.

Going to the game seemed like being on the inside of the most important secret in the world.

perspicaciousness into question. He'd say you wanted to see a .45 Glock in the man's hand

listened to the woman's voice.

In some strange way, any new fact or insight that I may have found has not seemed to me as a "discovery" of mine, but rather something that had always been there and that I had chanced to pick up.

If I'd been listening closely, I'd have caught the sound of the gods having a great big old tee-hee at my expense.

He has all the uncanny intuitions of a psychopath. Have you ever dealt with one? It's almost like a form of mind-reading...

You can always push people around, but it's not a good idea. Better to let them volunteer information for reasons of their own. You get more that way.

There's nothinng like an outsider's idle glance to make you conscious of your own environment.

There were pieces missing yet but they would fall into place and then maybe the whole of it would make sense.

Sometimes the import of a minor moment makes all the difference.

Let's face it, life is trivial, and my guess is that dying imparts very little wisdom on those in process.

As George Santayana pointed out, it is often "wisdom to believe the heart.

Change starts with seeing the pattern, with focusing on the game rather than the ball.

I have noticed that if you look carefully at people's eyes the first five seconds they look at you, the truth of their feelings will shine through for just an instant before it flickers away.

How often do we do that, he wondered--look at someone and fail to see what's really there?

I felt a trembling along my skin, a treaveling current that moved up my spine, down my arms, pulsing out from my fingertips. I was practically radiating. The body knows things a long time before the mind catches up to them. I was wondering what my body knew that I didn't.

Until we look from the bottom up we have nothing.

Return to your longing. It will teach you everything.