Quotes About Insight

The learning principle is to plunge into the detailed mystery of the micro in order to understand what makes the macro tick. Our obstacle is that we live in an attention-deficit culture.

Painful losses may prove much more valuable than wins

Since childhood I had treasured the sublime study of chess, the swim through ever-deepening layers of complexity. I could spend hours at a chessboard and stand up from the experience on fire with insight about chess, basketball, the ocean, psychology, love, art. The game was exhilarating and also spiritually calming. It centered me. Chess was my friend.

eisegetical;

Our books should be missing something, the finding of which makes us whole.

Lift up the hem of verbiage, peek below its frillies – what's exposed? the hairy truth?

Aren't you capable of finding anything beautiful in the world?" I'd tell her, she'd say, "I do not want to know about those websites. Please keep those disgusting websites to yourself.

as the day wore on I watched the birds all flying in one direction, and said, "Land lies there.

He was a common man expanded into giant proportions; well acquainted with the people, he placed his hand on the beating pulse of the nation, judged of its disease and was ready with a remedy.

Note the word "insight." In many cases, insight is precisely what depressed people lack: they fail to see the clearly good things about their lives. But the same forces that hold comfort at bay can lead, in the right circumstances, to valuable perspectives on the world.

Unfettered thinking generates the thousand. Analytical thinking helps us see the one that works.

The heart is wiser than the intellect.

Philosophers have actually devoted themselves, in the main, neither to perceiving the world, nor to spinning webs of conceptual theory, but to interpreting the meaning of the civilization which they have represented.

My duty is simply my own will brought to my clear self-consciousness. That which I can rightly view as good for me is simply the object of my own deepest desire set plainly before my insight.

Don't give people what they want, give them what they need.

When you realize there is something you don't understand, then you're generally on the right path to understanding all kinds of things.

I learned from her that the people who said you only live once were not readers. As often as you open a book, you come to new places and live new lives.

I've always had a theory that some of us are born with nerve endings longer than our bodies

I was born with eyes that can never close...

It was so obvious that I wondered I had not seen it before, but of course we do not often look at the shadows of things, only the things themselves.

Katherine feels that she must have learned something about marriage from being married before that is now working to her benefit. However, she doesn't know quite what it is, or how, actually, it works.

Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level.

Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.

now. We should know something