Quotes about Insight
The great illusion of leadership is to think that man can be led out of the desert by someone who has never been there.
— Henri Nouwen
Stick to the man who looks out of the window and tries to understand the world. Keep clear of the man who looks in at the window and tries to understand you.
— GK Chesterton
I got more true knowledge from reading the Book of God in one month, than I could ever have acquired from all the writings of men.
— George Whitefield
The Holy Spirit knows what a particular age's most pressing need is far better than men with their programs.
— Hans Urs von Balthasar
No man can be wise on an empty stomach.
— George Eliot
The man who has been taught by the Holy Spirit will be a seer rather than a scholar. The difference is that the scholar sees and the seer sees through; and that is a mighty difference indeed.
— AW Tozer
When I left the dining room after sitting next to Mr. Gladstone, I thought he was the cleverest man in England. But after sitting next to Mr. Disraeli, I thought I was the cleverest woman in England.
— Benjamin Disraeli
The problem is you don't know what your problem is. You think your problem is your main problem, but that's not the problem at all. The problem is you don't know what your problem is and that's your main problem.
— Neil Anderson
How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.
— Benjamin Disraeli
It does appear, then, that what you find in the landscape of the Old Testament when you 'get there' very much depends on whom you take with you and through whose eyes you view it.
— Christopher Wright
A one-eyed man is much more incomplete than a blind man, for he knows what it is that's lacking.
— Victor Hugo
That men saw his mask, but the bishop saw his face. That men saw his life, but the bishop saw his conscience.
— Victor Hugo