Quotes About Insight

was profound insight of a spiritual nature that could help me live my everyday life unconstrained by conflict, either with others or within myself. These

Understand both yourself and your enemy, and you shall always emerge victorious

What enables the enlightened rulers and good generals to conquer the enemy at every move and achieve extraordinary success is foreknowledge.

Perform your calculations for everything liable to calculation, but also think very deeply about what people are capable of.

There's a danger in writing a person's life from a historical vantage point, for hindsight can be smug.

Minds hold more than they know.

Minds hold more than they know," the tall man said.

Rationalization is what we do when we smooth over any insight that interferes with our good feelings. It's a way of making the unacceptable acceptable. By giving good reasons for what would otherwise distress us, we make sense out of confusing and even frightening situations.

Rending me is an insight rendered by Mark Doty: "death's deep in the structure of things, and we didn't put it there." The vision of dying as a disarmed surrender imbued Rilke with the conviction that "We need, in love, to practice only this: / letting each other go," a difficult discipline because of the uniqueness of each living creature.

It's hard to see people properly,' I said, 'when there's a big shadow blocking the light.

In fact the great truth of life is that the things most people think are important aren't really important at all.

I think we learn the truth about ourselves by telling it to someone else.

I think MacGregor might be a genius. Anyone so oblivious to the horror of the human world must be.

Once the client is seated, if she starts talking, let her. And pay very close attention. Often, the first things the client tells you are the most significant. If

and demand an answer." "She didn't have as good a time

We view the world on a molecular level. The building blocks, not the end results.

We understand what we want to understand.

Most people when you get up close are not more in focus, but less.

Whatever else you may need to get clarity, you must start with open eyes.

It may be true that you can't judge a book by its cover, Daisy G. had told Blister just last summer. But the cover tells you something about the book and don't ever pretend it doesn't.

The question is: Who owns the truth about what color the company is? The answer? Every single person in the company, including the entry-level file clerk, owns a piece of the truth about what color the company is. The operative word is piece. No one, not even the CEO, owns the entire truth, because no one can be in all places at all times.

The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.

My ignorance is not charming.

There is nothing wrong with standing back and thinking. To paraphrase several sages: 'Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.