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Quotes about Insight

It isn't that they can't see the solution, it's that they can't see the problem.
— GK Chesterton
Take note, complaining is not the same as prayer. It doesn't require any spiritual insight to grumble.
— Brother Andrew
We shall find the answer when we examine the problem, the problem is never apart from the answer, the problem IS the answer, understanding the problem dissolves the problem.
— Bruce Lee
All knowledge leads to self-knowledge.
— Bruce Lee
Give up thinking as though not giving it up. Observe techniques as though not observing.
— Bruce Lee
The devil is very sagacious. To judge by the event, he appears to have understood man better even than the Being who made him.
— Herman Melville
How can you see better of a dark night than anybody else, never mind how foolish?
— Herman Melville
Methinks that in looking at things spiritual, we are too much like oysters observing the sun through the water, and thinking that thick water the thinnest of air.
— Herman Melville
It's pleasant to sit by, a demi-god, and hear the surmisings of mortals, upon things they know nothing about; theology, or amber, or ambergris, it's all the same. But then, did I always out with every thing I know, there would be no conversing with these comical creatures.
— Herman Melville
The weaver-god, he weaves; and by that weaving is deafened, that he hears no mortal voice; and by that humming, we, too, who look on the loom are deafened; and only when we escape it shall we hear the thousand voices that speak through it. 76
— Herman Melville
The true way to be humble is not to stoop until you are smaller than yourself, but to stand at your real height against some higher nature that will show you what the real smallness of your greatness is.
— Phillips Brooks
The beauty is that through disappointment you can gain clarity, and with clarity comes conviction and true originality.
— Conan O'Brien