Quotes About Insight

We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates.

Do your thing & I shall know you.

If utterance is denied, the thought lies like a burden on the man. Always the seer is a sayer.

We may like well to know what is Plato's and what is Montesquieu's or Goethe's part, and what thought was always dear to the writer himself; but the worth of the sentences consists in their radiancy and equal aptitude to all intelligence. They fit all our facts like a charm. We respect ourselves the more that we know them.

[A]s if life were a thunder-storm wherein you can see by a flash the horizon, and then cannot see your hand....

Do what you know and perception is converted into character.

The reason why men do not obey us is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.

The truth, the hope of any time, must always be sought in minorities.

The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.

There are always those who think they know what is your responsibility better than you do.

To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men-that is genius.

To the dull mind all nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world sparkles with light.

We know better than we do. We do not yet possess ourselves.

What is a weed A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.

What you see is what it is!

All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.

Maturity is a result of learning from success and from mistakes—in other words, learning from experience.

Suffering is part of our training program for becoming wise.

The next message you need is always right where you are.

Nehru had an unusual capacity – unusual among politicians, at any rate – to view both sides of the question

A day will dawn when you will laugh at your past efforts. What you realize on the day you laugh is also here and now

Remaining quiet is what is called wisdom-insight. To remain quiet is to resolve the mind in the Self. Telepathy, knowing past, present and future happenings and clairvoyance do not constitute wisdom-insight.

If the light of the sun is invisible to the owl it is only the fault of that bird and not of the sun.

As long as you're Unaware, you lead a miserable life. The moment you're aware of all that is happening around you, You have arrived Home; it is only then that you relish what life brings in; but if you're unaware, even the greatest moments bring despair.