Quotes About Insight

It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around.

Every extension of knowledge arises from making the conscious the unconscious.

They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom.

A classical work of literature can never be completely understood. But those who are educated and educating themselves must always desire to learn more from it.

philosophy of art usually lacks one of two things: either the philosophy or the art

Qui augmente sa connaissance augmente son ignorance.

The historian is a prophet in reverse.

The historian is a prophet looking backwards.

The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life.

Rather than comparing ourselves with normal people, we'll gain more insight into our needs by seeing what active, fit, and highly motivated older humans are capable of doing. There aren't as many of these people—after all, they aren't normal—but they often reveal what is possible at the highest levels of athletic performance.

The esoteric finds the Absolute within the traditions, as poets find poetry within the poems.

Practicing zazen is like gradually (or maybe not so gradually) getting your sight back.

Buddhism started not when Shakyamuni had his great revelation by himself. Lots of people had done that before. It began when he made his first efforts to transform that into a communal practice. Buddhism, then, is not something you do by yourself.

The truth is everywhere all around us, but if we don't practice, it doesn't show itself and we can't experience it.

There's no comparison between someone who has their own real experience and someone who just reads about the experiences of others.

If you can read, there is no worldly wisdom that cannot be gathered from the pages of a book.

A writer is simply a photographer of thoughts.

Perspective prys her once-weighty eyes and it gives you wings.

You act as if there's blinders on your eyes!

I think that what most artists are trying to do is trying to understand. I think what distinguishes creative people and/or artists from another type of person is perhaps a willingness to go headlong into that uncertainty.

A clever tattooist produces artistic work, creativity in living with knowledge and insight to his craft.

An artist is only as good as their morgue. When I say morgue, I'm talking about the artist's visual library of references.

Beyond the unacknowledged mental gate imprisoned deeply within the gloomy unknown of the ignorant mind lies your answer.

Wise people learn from their mistakes, but wiser people learn from others.