Quotes about Insight
In history, a great volume is unravelled for our instruction, drawing materials of future wisdom from the past errors and infirmities of mankind.
— Edmund Burke
This was Paul's joy in suffering and shame: "that I may know him and the power of his resurrection, and may share his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, that by any means possible I may attain the resurrection from the dead" (Philippians 3:10—11). Notice how this affects your shameful past. It will still hurt at times, but shame will lose its power. The very event that made you an outcast is the one that gives you insight into the mind of Christ.
— Edward Welch
Who in your life is one step ahead of you in knowing people? What does that person do?
— Edward Welch
If you want to know more about yourself, turn to Jesus.
— Edward Welch
Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen, and thinking what nobody else has thought.
— Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.
— Aldous Huxley
The business of a seer is to see; and if he involves himself in the kind of God-eclipsing activities which make seeing impossible, he betrays the trust which his fellows have tacitly placed in him.
— Aldous Huxley
You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you mad.
— Aldous Huxley
His answer trickled through my head like water through a sieve.
— Lewis Carroll
If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.
— Mark Twain
A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.
— Will Rogers
Who ever converses among old books will be hard to please among the new.
— William Temple