Quotes about Insight
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
— Ernest Hemingway
We are always in search of the redeeming formula, the crystallizing thought.
— Etty Hillesum
Lord, give me wisdom, not knowledge. Or rather the knowledge that leads to wisdom and true happiness and not the kind that leads to power.
— Etty Hillesum
That's why I tell stories: to create readiness, to nudge the people toward receptive insight. In their present state they can stare till doomsday and not see it, listen till they're blue in the face and not get it.
— Eugene Peterson
I do not have more information after reading a poem; I have more experience.
— Eugene Peterson
But to those who can't see it yet, everything comes in stories, creating readiness, nudging them toward receptive insight.
— Eugene Peterson
Without good direction, people lose their way; the more wise counsel you follow, the better your chances.
— Eugene Peterson
Skilled living gets its start in the Fear-of-GOD, insight into life from knowing a Holy God.
— Eugene Peterson
I wish he'd show you how wisdom looks from the inside, for true wisdom is mostly 'inside.
— Eugene Peterson
Drinking from the beautiful chalice of knowledge is better than adorning oneself with gold and rare gems.
— Eugene Peterson
Isn't it interesting that all of the biblical prophets and psalmists were poets?
— Eugene Peterson
The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man.
— Euripides