Genuine Insight Quotes

Learn to be quiet enough to hear the genuine within yourself so that you can hear it in others.

Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.

The best mirror is an old friend.

God preserve us from writers who regurgitate what they have learnt from books! It is people's secrets we want to know - it is the natural history of the human heart that we have been trying to put down for a thousand years and everyone must and can leave their contribution.

A lot of things in 'Parents' I find very truthful.

The best mirror is an old friend.

Thought and knowledge are natures in which apparatus and pretension avail nothing. Gowns, and pecuniary foundations, though of towns of gold, can never countervail the least sentence or syllable of wit. Forget this, and out American colleges will recede in their public importance whilst they grow richer every year.

You've never lived what you are thinking, and that isn't good. Only the ideas we actually live are of any value.

Read not books alone, but men, and amongst them chiefly thyself. If thou find anything questionable there, use the commentary of a severe friend, rather than the gloss of a sweet-lipped flatterer there is more profit in a distasteful truth than in deceitful sweetness.

Remarkable visions and genuine insight are always met with resistance. And when you start to make progress, your efforts are met with even more resistance. Products, services, career paths... whatever it is, the forces for mediocrity will align to stop you, forgiving no errors and never backing down until it's over

I like getting to the meat of things. You can't get it in a five-minute interview. I like to hone a person. I like to make eye contact.

There is a down-and-outness under true knowledge and a childlike happy arising from it.