Quotes about Insight

Dedicated to all those who say: "I don't have time for analytics" or "I don't understand analytics".

Hard knocks have a place and value, but hard thinking goes farther in less time.

We study history not to be clever in another time, but to be wise always.

When we pray for God to illumine our path, we are saying, 'Dear God, please show me the way. What thoughts do I need to think, to be able to navigate my life at this point? What perceptions do I need; what insights will guide me? Who do I need to forgive? What parts of my personality do I need to look at; what changes do I need to make? Please come upon me and heal my life. Amen.

In our ability to think about something differently lies the power to make it different.

Prayer is the difference between seeing with our physical eyes and seeing with our spiritual eyes.

Politicians tell people what they want to hear, prophets tell people what they need to hear.

Life is a gift of nature but beautiful living is the gift of wisdom.

Even if our contact with eternal beings is slight, none the less because of its surpassing value this knowledge is a greater pleasure than our knowledge of everything around us.

You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of trifles.

Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual labour, that he takes snuff, that he is a Freemason, that he has been in China, and that he has done a considerable amount of writing lately, I can deduce nothing else.

For the one and only time I caught a glimpse of a great heart as well as of a great brain.