Quotes about Insight

I don't need faith. I have experience.

... I have read in your face, as plain as if it was a book, that but for some trouble and sorrow we should never know half the good there is about us.

where the telescope ends the microscope begins, and who can say which has the wider vision?

A drop of sense can save you an ocean of tears.

No matter what I see or how many times I think I may have seen it before, I always ask, "What is this, Lord?" I am confident that the same God who gives me the revelation can also interpret it for me.

Well-wrought poems and works of imaginative literature can do for us what stone-cold prose can never do. They can help us grasp the full dimension of ways of life other than our own.

The further away you are from something, the fuzzier it becomes.

A lot of companies have a similar front-of-house/back-of-house split. The people who make the product work in the "kitchen" while support handles the customers. Unfortunately, that means the product's chefs never get to directly hear what customers are saying. Too bad. Listening to customers is the best way to get in tune with a product's strengths and weaknesses.

Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.

That very afternoon they had seemed full of brilliant qualities; now she saw that they were merely dull in a loud way.

Denied access to information about important arenas of human life, history, and art, women like Augusta Welland demonstrate well into adulthood a lack of moral insight and sympathetic compassion.

they had a force of negation which eliminated everything beyond their own range of perception.