Quotes about Insight

When I don't know the answer to something, I write a book about it because it gives me a chance to explore it and go to some people who do have the answers.

Keep up the fires of thought, and all will go well.

Prayer is the act of seeing reality from God's point of view.

Christianity offers the further insight that true fulfillment comes, not through ego satisfaction, but through service to others.

Tocqueville delivered his dispassionate and penetrating judgment of the American experiment in his great work Democracy in America. No one, before or since, has written about the United States with such insight.

That's the great question: Who sees the miracles of daily life? And the answer is: Whoever chooses to see.

People greatly value knowledge and intelligence, but not wisdom.

Women, you need to understand something. Men are not as dumb as you think they are.

To get at the root of problems, a leader must develop into a skillful listener. Too many strong personalities are compulsive talkers. "He won't listen to me," complains a missionary. "He gives the answer before I have had a chance to state the problem.

Those who have most powerfully and permanently influenced their generation have been "seers" -- people who have seen more and farther than others -- persons of faith, for faith is vision.

Eyes that look are common; eyes that see are rare. The

My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is.