Quotes about Insight

Keep a diary, and someday it'll keep you.

You never know what's going on in someone's life. You never know what's really going on behind what they present.

Instead, it's a change in our response to the Question, and being true to the insight means being open to how it revises the whole.

The possession of the truth is the highest goal of the human mind.

Analytical reading is preeminently for the sake of understanding

4. If the book is a new one with a dust jacket, READ THE PUBLISHER'S BLURB.

intelligent action depends on knowledge. Knowledge

The first is: if you can, read more than one history of an event or period that interests you. The second is: read a history not only to learn what really happened at a particular time and place in the past, but also to learn the way men act in all times and places, especially now.

your primary obligation is not to become competent in the subject matter but instead to understand the problem.

Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider.

We are a sum total of what we have learned from all who have taught us, both great and small.

Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area.