Quotes about Insight
Learning is its own exceeding great reward.
— William Hazlitt
I think books should have secrets, like people do.
— John Updike
Our wisdom . . . consists almost entirely of two parts: the knowledge of God and of ourselves.
— Peter Scazzero
The wise are known for their few words.
— Peter Scazzero
Those who cannot learn from the past are doomed to repeat it.
— Peter Scazzero
Pain has an amazing ability to open us to new truth and to get us moving.
— Peter Scazzero
As the wise, old Abbot Moses said when a brother came to him for a good word, "Go, sit in your cell [a monk's room], and your cell will teach you everything.
— Peter Scazzero
John was not a logician, but a seer; not a reasoner, but a mystic; he does not argue, but assert; he arrives at conclusions with one bound, as by direct intuition.
— Philip Schaff
It is while you are patiently toiling at the little tasks of life that the meaning and shape of the great whole of life dawn on you.
— Phillips Brooks
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
We take things at face value, don't we? You form an opinion about something immediately, but you ought to step back a bit. Take in the vista first.
— Maxine Peake
I think I've learned a lot on the vocal side of things.
— Richard Ashcroft