Quotes About Insight

The elephant in the room" is a phrase I enjoy, having at different times been either elephant or room. We can lose ourselves in situations or conversations and miss the obvious. We're looking for someone to save us or a solution to a problem, and they're right in front of us hiding in plain sight.

Climbing into the ring, the best-prepared fighter is the one who has tried to understand their opponent. Especially if it's yourself.

There's stuff you can learn from people who don't tell you anything. Like how not to react when there is a crisis. Like how to stay still and maybe even unearth levity from the seriousness of a situation. Edge is the silence inside every noise. He's the light inside the paint.

There's stuff you can learn from people who don't tell you anything.

The Lives of Others.

Wisdom is the recovery of innocence at the far end of experience

Answer a fool according to his folly, or he will be wise in his own eyes.

Stupid people always think they are right. Wise people listen to advice.

Education is not what a person is able to hold in his head, so much as it is what a person is able to find.I

The older I grow, the more I am convinced that there is no education which one can get from books and costly apparatus that is equal to that which can be gotten from contact with great men and women. Instead of studying books so constantly, how I wish that our schools and colleges might learn to study men and things!

One literature differs from another, either before or after it, not so much because of the text as for the manner in which it is read.

The mind must be in a state of wisdom to understand wisdom.

As they say, out with one eye for remembering the past, but if you forget, out with both. And

unique understanding

Je passe le plus clair de mon temps à l'obscurcir parce que la lumière me gêne

Ndumbe stares at me. Before answering, he wants to know if I woke up on the right side of the bed. Of course, he's going to lie, but he doesn't want to tell the wrong lie. That's his forte.

Books are embalmed minds.

Books are embalmed minds. They make the great of other days our present teachers.

An illusion dissipated is an experience gained.

Genius makes its observations in short hand; talent writes them out at length.

Wit is better as a seasoning than as a whole dish by itself.

Reverence invites Revelation

o ponto de vista vale oitenta pontos de QI" —

the people closest to problems were usually in the best position to solve them.