Quotes about Insight
Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of ages through which they passed.
— William Temple
Look: invest in what you understand, what's foreseeably going to offer real value and returns, not necessarily what's trendy.
— Donald Trump
Wait, wait, wait, wait. Don't try to write through it, to force it. Many do, but that won't work. Just wait, it will come.
— Toni Morrison
The more you meditate on the laws of Moses, the more striking and brighter does their wisdom appear.
— John Quincy Adams
Humility is nothing else but a right judgment of ourselves.
— William Law
Patrick: How do you know so much about dating? You're a teenage girl. Tess: Because I'm a teenage girl.
— Steven James
Keep a diary, and someday it'll keep you.
— Mae West
Instead, it's a change in our response to the Question, and being true to the insight means being open to how it revises the whole.
— Miroslav Volf
The possession of the truth is the highest goal of the human mind.
— Mortimer Adler
Analytical reading is preeminently for the sake of understanding
— Mortimer Adler
4. If the book is a new one with a dust jacket, READ THE PUBLISHER'S BLURB.
— Mortimer Adler
intelligent action depends on knowledge. Knowledge
— Mortimer Adler