Quotes About Insight

Lawrence of Arabia said old and wise means tired and disappointed. He didn't live long enough to know how right he was.

Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.

When something baffled him he found that if he kept on worrying it, he got no further, and lost his sense of proportion in the process. So when he came to a dead stop he indulged in what he called "shutting his eyes" for a little, and when he "opened" them again he habitually found a new light on things that revealed unexpected angles and made the old problem a totally new proposition. There

The more windows on the world a policeman has the better he is likely to be at his job

That is why historians surprise me. They seem to have no talent for the likeliness of any situation. They see history like a peepshow; with two-dimensional figures against a distant background.

Experience makes more timid men than it does wise ones.

There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing.

There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply.

Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.

I never had a man come to me for advice yet, but what I soon discovered that he thought more of his own opinion than he did of mine.

Experience is a school where a man learns what a big fool he has been.

Good nonsense is good sense in disguise.

Effective Bible Teachers exude a familiarity with the text that can only come from living with it.

Things that annoy me end up fueling my ideas.

Believe that your intuition will give you the answers when you ask yourself questions. Give your question to your intuition rather than trying to think it through or analyze it."

The problem with a life spent reading is you know too much.

The best fiction captures the truth of real life.

There was nothing like working law enforcement for a few years to give you a jaded view of human nature. No matter how well you thought you knew someone, no one ever entirely knew anyone else.

The first to speak in court sounds right—until the cross-examination begins" (Proverbs 18:17).

When I go to movies and I love the movie, it's because it feels like it articulated something about how we're living now, and also gives me some insight into my own life. I feel actually altered after having seen it.

I think that the mark of a great book is that it will meet you wherever you're at and you'll feel and experience something new and different each time you read it.

The path to artistic insight in one direction often involves deep study of another—the intuition makes uncanny connections that lead to a crystallization of fragmented notions.

I would take in vast amounts of technical information that my brain somehow put together into bursts of insight that felt more like music or wind than mathematical combinations. Increasingly, I had the sense that the key to these leaps was interconnectedness—some part of my being was harmonizing all my relevant knowledge, making it gel into one potent eruption, and suddenly the enigmatic was crystal-clear. But what was really happening?

Whenever I made a fundamental error, he would mention the principle I had violated. If I refused to budge, he'd proceed to take advantage of the error until my position fell apart. Over time, Bruce earned my respect as I saw the correctness of his ideas.