Quotes about Insight

If we were to gain God's perspective, even for a moment, and were to look at the way we go through life accumulating and hoarding and displaying our things, we would have the same feelings of horror and pity that any sane person has when he views people in an asylum endlessly beating their heads against the wall.

You could tell a lot about someone by listening to him talk about his enemies.

Rich wisdom is better even than rich soil, young Neil. Jose sees now that you grow in wisdom like a weed in manure.

the older and younger Blumhardt and their friends. There would have been something significant to learn—as later developments prove—from the books of Friedrich Zündel, for example.

Women have much to tell us. Women are capable of seeing things in a different angle. Women can pose questions that we men cannot understand.

No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it.

Wise men read very sharply all of your private history in your look and gait and behavior.

Before dinner men meet with great inequality of understanding.

The man who sees two or three generations is like one who sits in the conjuror's booth at a fair, and sees the same tricks two or three times. They are meant to be seen only once.

For every man the world is as fresh as it was at the first day, and as full of untold novelties for him who has the eyes to see them.

The wisest man preaches no doctrines; he has no scheme; he sees no rafter, not even a cobweb, against the heavens. It is clear sky.

A glimpse is not a vision. But to a man on a mountain road by night, a glimpse of the next three feet of road may matter more than a vision of the horizon.