Quotes about Insight
No man better knows what good is than he who has endured evil.
— Anonymous
As for my next book, I am going to hold myself from writing it till I have it impending in me: grown heavy in my mind like a ripe pear, pendant, gravid, asking to be cut or it will fall.
— Virginia Woolf
The person who sees the difficulties so clearly that he does not discern the possibilities cannot inspire a vision in others.
— J. Oswald Sanders
One reason why people are unable to understand great Christian classics is that they are trying to understand without any intention of obeying them.
— J. Oswald Sanders
True leaders know that time spent listening is well invested.
— J. Oswald Sanders
Does it surprise you as much as it does me, this correspondence between things as they are and the pictures we have of them in our minds?
— JM Coetzee
Nevertheless we understood each other on all levels of madness...
— Jack Kerouac
I see as much as doors'll allow, open or shut.
— Jack Kerouac
I'm merely exploring souls & cities From the vantage point Of my ivory tower built, Built with the assistance of Opium That's enough, isnt it?
— Jack Kerouac
Nonetheless we understood each other on other levels of madness...
— Jack Kerouac
Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
I believe that the real difference in the American church is not between conservatives and liberals, fundamentalists and charismatics, nor between Republicans and Democrats. The real difference is between the aware and the unaware.
— Brennan Manning