Quotes About Insight

Indeed, our recent research has led us to conclude that one of the most reliable indicators and predictors of true leadership is an individual's ability to find meaning in negative events and to learn from even the most trying circumstances. Put another way, the skills required to conquer adversity and emerge stronger and more committed than ever are the same ones that make for extraordinary leaders.

The art of management is the art of making meaningful generalizations out of inadequate facts.

Our Age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchers of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories, and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face; we, through their eyes. Why should we not have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs? … The sun shines today also … There are new lands, new men, new thoughts. Let us demand our own works and laws and worship.

One truth discovered is immortal, and entitles its author to be so: for, like a new substance in nature, it can not be destroyed.

For the value of everything exists for man only so long as he does not understand it. When he has fully understood, the value is lost, be it the lowest thing or the highest thing.

as sad things can also have other sides, miraculous ones. If you don't feel sadness, there are types of happiness and compassion and torture and insight you will never know. Sadness has all sorts of truths that allow you to experience joy.

Lonely children probably wrote the bible

When I read, I was a philosopher and it was up to me to figure out the meaning of things. Reading made me feel as if I were the center of the universe.

When we look at the world rationally, the world looks rationally back.

Sometimes we cannot see and don't want to see because we are blinded. We need eye salve to put on our eyes. We cry out for revival, and yet God says, "I want to open your eyes so you can see what is before you. Revival has a face and a name. It lies bleeding on the roadside." If we want to see revival, we need to begin with the one in front of us.

Dans les périodes obscures, la religion est le meilleur guide des hommes, de même que par une nuit noire un aveugle connait mieux les routes et les chemins qu'un voyant. Quand la lumière paraît, en revanche, il est insensé de se laisser conduire par de vieux aveugles.

If you want to hurt somebody and you want to know where his vulnerable spot is you have to know him, before you can put in the right dig, that's very important.

But fiction is not, as many nonwriters seem to think, a random grab bag of made-up whimsies, as undisciplined and unreasoned as a dream. Nor is it simply reporting with the names changed. It is an amalgam of experience, education, reading, insight, analysis, conversations, observation, and conscious research.

When one thinks in the wilderness, alone, . . . many things become clear. I have been learning, all these years in the wilderness, as if I had had a teacher.

Life is a succesion of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight and no vision.

As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.

our enjoyment of the great works of literature depends more upon the depth of our sympathy than upon our understanding.

I read from Mark Twain's lips one or two of his good stories. He has his own way of thinking, saying and doing everything. I feel the twinkle of his eye in his handshake. Even while he utters his cynical wisdom in an indescribably droll voice, he makes you feel that his heart is a tender Iliad of human sympathy.

Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves - and find nothing! Therefore they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves either.

People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.

It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.