Quotes About Insight

People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.

Someone said, 'The dead writers are remote from us because we know so much more than they did.' Precisely, and they are that which we know.

The name that no human research can discover-- But THE CAT HIMSELF KNOWS, and will never confess. When you notice a cat in profound meditation, The reason, I tell you, is always the same: His mind is engaged in a rapt contemplation Of the thought, of the thought, of the thought of his name: His ineffable effable Effanineffable Deep and inscrutable singular Name.

And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time

All our knowledge brings us nearer to our ignorance.

Truth on our level is a different thing from truth for the jellyfish.

The end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we know we started and know the place for the first time.

I could see nothing behind that child's eye. 40 I have seen eyes in the street Trying to peer through lighted shutters, And a crab one afternoon in a pool, An old crab with barnacles on his back, Gripped the end of a stick which I held him.

There are certain points I do not yet understand: They will be clear later. I am also convinced That you only hold a fragment of the explanation. It is only because of what you do not understand That you feel the need to declare what you do. There is more to understand: hold fast to that As the way to freedom.

I cannot feel that my appreciation of Milton leads anywhere outside of the mazes of sound.

We had the experience but missed the meaning.

I suspect, in fact, that a good deal of the value of an interpretation is -- that it should be my own interpretation.

And what is the real you. I haven't much experience, But I see something now which doesn't come from tutors Or from books, or from thinking, or from observation:

When I know, I know that in some way I shall find That I have always known it. And that will be better.

Where is the wisdom? We lost in knowledge Where is the wisdom we lost in knowledge? ?????

After such knowledge, what forgiveness?

People who do not understand irony cannot understand fiction.

Experience came easily enough, learning how not to suffer would have proved much more practical.

A man whose wisdom is true does not sit in waiting for the world to come at him piece by piece for proving its existence!

Every time you open your mouth," Clarence said, "you just seem older and weirder.

For all the things we've seen... my goodness, the world still has more to show us, doesn't it?

Falling to a low estate can do that—you see so much more of the world than you did before. You become very aware of how thin the line is, of how little safety exists.

Read books? That's like eating mielie pap—it start out bad, then it get no better." Joseph took a deep breath and let it out slowly, overburdened by the mere thought of literature.

If you pull a single thread away it is just that—a single thread. I defy any man to read a tapestry from a solitary strand.