Quotes about Insight
Here's the reason why the peasant is wise. He's wise because he's beaten from the very start. Give him power and then you'll see how wise he is.
— Ernest Hemingway
This book is fiction, but there is always a chance that such a work of fiction may throw some light on what has been written as fact.
— Ernest Hemingway
When I have an idea, I turn down the flame, as if it were a little alcohol stove, as low as it will go. Then it explodes and that is my idea.
— Ernest Hemingway
You learn in this war if you listen.
— Ernest Hemingway
All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened.
— Ernest Hemingway
Our definition of wisdom? The ability to see into the future the consequences of your choices in the present.
— Andy Andrews
THE SECOND DECISION FOR SUCCESS: I will seek wisdom.
— Andy Andrews
But I do believe that the more sand that has fallen from the hourglass of our lives, the clearer we should be able to see through it.
— Andy Andrews
What a person thinks is determined by how a person thinks. This is true whether the conclusion at which a person arrives is accurate, safe, and profitable — or stupid and vicious.
— Andy Andrews
One way to define wisdom is the ability to see, into the future, the consequences of your choices in the present. That ability can give you a completely different perspective on what the future might look like.
— Andy Andrews
One of the primary reasons we don't seek counsel from the wise people around us is that we already know what we are going to hear--and we just don't want to hear it.
— Andy Stanley
Lord, help us to see trouble coming long before it gets here. And give us the wisdom to know what to do and the courage to do it.
— Andy Stanley