Quotes about Insight

Strange, then, is the blindness of the intellect, which does not consider that which it sees first and without which it can know nothing.

Education is not what a person is able to hold in his head, so much as it is what a person is able to find.I

Life is a succesion of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.

The bible gives me a deep comforting sense that (things seen are temporal, and things unseen are eternal.

Only by contact with evil could I have learned to feel by contrast the beauty of truth and love and goodness.

I've had songs that were spread out over a number of years, and I've written some in ten minutes, and everything in between.

It's important to have people who are absolutely willing to say you're wrong or who have a totally different perspective than you do on everything. Fresh ideas are hard to come by, and good ones are even harder.

Indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.

Many in the world are searching, often intensely, for a source of refreshment that will quench their yearning for meaning and direction in their lives. They crave a cool, satisfying drink of insight and knowledge that will soothe their parched souls.

The architect must be a prophet... a prophet in the true sense of the term... if he can't see at least ten years ahead don't call him an architect.

I'm not a religious person, but I read the Bible many years ago.