Quotes about Insight

Defeat is a school in which truth always grows strong.

The man who perceives life only with his eye, his ear, his hand, and his tongue, is but little higher than the ox or an intelligent dog; but he who has imagination sees things around and above him, as the angels see them.

A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.

When you are describing, A shape, or sound, or tint; Don't state the matter plainly, But put it in a hint; And learn to look at all things, With a sort of mental squint.

Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all.

I personally claim no special insight into Satan's methods, but I have at times been able to identify his influence and his actions in my life and in the lives of others. When I was on my first mission, Satan sought to divert me from my future path and, if possible, to destroy my usefulness in the Lord's work.

Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of ages through which they passed.

Look: invest in what you understand, what's foreseeably going to offer real value and returns, not necessarily what's trendy.

Wait, wait, wait, wait. Don't try to write through it, to force it. Many do, but that won't work. Just wait, it will come.

The more you meditate on the laws of Moses, the more striking and brighter does their wisdom appear.

Humility is nothing else but a right judgment of ourselves.

Patrick: How do you know so much about dating? You're a teenage girl. Tess: Because I'm a teenage girl.