Quotes about Insight
There is the love of knowing without the love of learning; the beclouding here leads to dissipation of mind.
— Confucius
The scars of others should teach us caution.
— St. Jerome
I don't have to have faith, I have experience.
— Joseph Campbell
Regrets are illuminations come too late.
— Joseph Campbell
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
— Ernest Hemingway
We are always in search of the redeeming formula, the crystallizing thought.
— Etty Hillesum
Lord, give me wisdom, not knowledge. Or rather the knowledge that leads to wisdom and true happiness and not the kind that leads to power.
— Etty Hillesum
That's why I tell stories: to create readiness, to nudge the people toward receptive insight. In their present state they can stare till doomsday and not see it, listen till they're blue in the face and not get it.
— Eugene Peterson
I do not have more information after reading a poem; I have more experience.
— Eugene Peterson
But to those who can't see it yet, everything comes in stories, creating readiness, nudging them toward receptive insight.
— Eugene Peterson
Without good direction, people lose their way; the more wise counsel you follow, the better your chances.
— Eugene Peterson
Skilled living gets its start in the Fear-of-GOD, insight into life from knowing a Holy God.
— Eugene Peterson