Deeper Insight Quotes

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.

Sometimes there's a snobbery among literary types that these people don't really get it, but in a lot of ways they get it more than the literati. There's a culture in the background that they understand and know. They get that deeper level.

The closer you look at something, the more complex it seems to be.

It places value on experience versus intellectual understanding. I saw a lot of people contemplating things but it didn't seem to lead to too many places. I got very interested in people who had discovered something more significant than an intellectual, abstract understanding.

When I interview people, and they give me an immediate answer, they're often not thinking. So I'm silent. I wait. Because they think they have to keep answering. And it's the second train of thought that's the better answer.

To see me does not necessarily mean to see my face. To understand my thoughts is to have seen me.

The best that most of us can hope to achieve in physics is simply to misunderstand at a deeper level.

Questions of personal priority, however interesting they may be to the persons concerned, sink into insignificance in the prospect of any gain of deeper insight into the secrets of nature.

Keep looking below surface appearances. Don't shrink from doing so just because you might not like what you find.

No matter how horrid a person may appear on the surface, if you dig deeper, you will find some nice, unexpected little quality.

In reality, most of us depend on others to articulate the issues, to interpret data, and explain the implications. Few of us have the time or interest to read background reports for ourselves; even fewer have the inclination or ability to examine primary data. The volume, breadth, and complexity of our national issues defy casual understanding and frequently overwhelm sincere seekers of deeper insight. As a result, we substantively rely on the opinions of others to form our own. Yet, many of those on whom we rely as the basis of our opinions are doing the exact same thing. […] This is a perverse dysfunction in the way we form and reinforce our opinions.

The vulgar herd catches at the gross apparent fact, but the man of insight knows what lies on the surfaces does lie.

All the world's combined knowledge is at our fingertips. But the same technology that makes this possible is robbing us of deeper insight.

I desire a greatness of soul, an irradiance of mind, a deeper insight, a broader hope.

Most things disappoint till you look deeper.

Anecdotes don't make good stories. Generally I dig down underneath them so far that the story that finally comes out is not what people thought their anecdotes were about.

Have faith in God. It will make you dig deeper and become a better leader.

When you expand your ability to see, you understand that there are a lot of false choices being offered.

We can see, so we are always blind to things deeper than skin.

It's hard to see a film one time and really "get it," and write fully and intelligently about it. That's a review. That's not film criticism. And there's so many expectations involved, too. You're going in to see the latest Martin Scorsese or Stanley Kubrick film, you really have high hopes, and you can't help but find that it's not exactly what you had in your head going in. Until you can watch it again, you can't accept the work for what it intends to be. It takes at least a second viewing.

I believe that when people invite their soul into the present moment - especially when their bodies and minds are encountering that experience of sudden and abrupt change - the wisdom of the soul allows them to experience the change differently. It literally re-contextualizes the change itself and we have a deeper, richer, more profound understanding of what is really going on.

The violinist must possess the poet's gift of piercing the protective hide which grows on propagandists, stockbrokers and slave traders, to penetrate the deeper truth which lies within.