Quotes about Insight

Tocqueville delivered his dispassionate and penetrating judgment of the American experiment in his great work Democracy in America. No one, before or since, has written about the United States with such insight.

That's the great question: Who sees the miracles of daily life? And the answer is: Whoever chooses to see.

People greatly value knowledge and intelligence, but not wisdom.

Women, you need to understand something. Men are not as dumb as you think they are.

I take each event, and I have to learn from it.

To get at the root of problems, a leader must develop into a skillful listener. Too many strong personalities are compulsive talkers. "He won't listen to me," complains a missionary. "He gives the answer before I have had a chance to state the problem.

Those who have most powerfully and permanently influenced their generation have been "seers" -- people who have seen more and farther than others -- persons of faith, for faith is vision.

Eyes that look are common; eyes that see are rare. The

My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is.

I think that the greatest gift God ever gave man is not the gift of sight but the gift of vision. Sight is a function of the eyes, but vision is a function of the heart.

When I think of vision, I have in mind the ability to see above and beyond the majority.

In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by.