Quotes about Insight

There is no great genius free from some tincture of madness.

If you have the gift of frustration and the deep sense that the world is a mess, thank God for that; not everyone has that gift of vision. It also means that you have a responsibility to lead us in new ways.

If you have the gift of frustration and the deep sense that the world is a mess, thank God for that; not everyone has that gift of vision.

Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

Disappointment is just the chance to start once more, this time all the more insightfully.

Most pastors have a hard time grasping a vision. But vision is the indispensable quality of a leader.

Let time that makes you homely make you sage.

There is more to be learnt from every page of David Hume than from the collected philosophical works of Hegel, Herbart, and Schleiermacher are taken together.

If a ray of light falls into a pigsty, it is the ray that shows us the muck and it is the ray that is offensive.

in the wisdom of women the Golden One had understood more than we can understand.

All work is an act of creating and comes from the same source: from an inviolate capacity to see through one's own eyes—which means: the capacity to perform a rational identification -which means: the capacity to see, to connect and to make what had not been seen, connected and made before.

Strange how a single conversation can change you. Or maybe it only seems that way in retrospect.