Quotes about Insight
As the wise, old Abbot Moses said when a brother came to him for a good word, "Go, sit in your cell [a monk's room], and your cell will teach you everything.
— Peter Scazzero
John was not a logician, but a seer; not a reasoner, but a mystic; he does not argue, but assert; he arrives at conclusions with one bound, as by direct intuition.
— Philip Schaff
It is while you are patiently toiling at the little tasks of life that the meaning and shape of the great whole of life dawn on you.
— Phillips Brooks
The true way to be humble is not to stoop until you are smaller than yourself, but to stand at your real height against some higher nature that will show you what the real smallness of your greatness is.
— Phillips Brooks
He who thinks he knows, doesn't know. He who knows that he doesn't know, knows. For in this context, to know is not to know. And not to know is to know.
— Joseph Campbell
You have to learn to recognize your own depths.
— Joseph Campbell
Woman, in the picture language of mythology, represents the totality of what can be known. The hero is the one who comes to know.
— Joseph Campbell
She would know a good thing to do without thinking about it.
— AA Milne
As a pastor, I've spent 30 years talking to people and heard every kind of story imaginable.
— Andy Stanley
Pastors need to know what's going on in the world and what has been going on for 4,000 years. We need a way to read Scripture which is imaginative, interpretive.
— Eugene Peterson
I don't think anyone could write about another culture and get it 100 percent accurate.
— Elizabeth George
We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.
— Vernon Howard