686 Quotes About Insight

Denna is a wild thing," I explained. "Like a hind or a summer storm. If a storm blows down your house, or breaks a tree, you don't say the storm was mean. It was cruel. It acted according to its nature and something unfortunately was hurt. The same is true of Denna.

The problem of knowledge is that there are many more books on birds written by ornithologists than books on birds written by birds and books on ornithologists written by birds

You don't read Gatsby, I said, to learn whether adultery is good or bad but to learn about how complicated issues such as adultery and fidelity and marriage are. A great novel heightens your senses and sensitivity to the complexities of life and of individuals, and prevents you from the self-righteousness that sees morality in fixed formulas about good and evil.

I know faces, because I look through the fabric my own eye weaves, and behold the reality beneath.

Your strength will be found when you stop struggling with yourself, instead of thinking everyone is a struggle worth overcoming. Every obstacle in life is a lesson that teaches us, not others.

They say that the senses are crucial;and the mind more crucial than the senses;and even more crucial than the mind is insight;and much more crucial than insight, in this (self).

… few grasped – with piercing insight – what they had the potential to be the best at, and, just as important, what they hadn’t…

… ‘doing what you are good at will only make you good; focusing on what you can, potentially, do better than best of the rest, is the only path to greatness’…

I’m learning that forgiveness doesn’t always change the forgiven person, but it does change the forgiver.