Quotes About Insight

Rich wisdom is better even than rich soil, young Neil. Jose sees now that you grow in wisdom like a weed in manure.

My stories run up and bite me in the leg -- I respond by writing down everything that goes on during the bite. When I finish, the idea lets go and runs off.

We do need knowledge. And perhaps in a thousand years we might pick smaller cliffs to jump off. The books are to remind us what asses and fools we are.

Digression is the soul of wit. Take the philosophic asides away from Dante, Milton or Hamlet's father's ghost and what stays is dry bones.

She did not think policeman—she simply watched and took in images, sounds, sensations.

The ordinary is immune to understanding because it cannot be placed outside human experience for examination.

So the real answer to any fundamental question is experience itself.

34. Beneath Each Knowing There is mystery because there is not-knowing. Yet beneath each knowing is the next not-knowing. So each knowing deepens the mystery. Yet even in knowing there is the mystery of knowing.

To appreciate its apparent complication, it is useful to zoom in on its image (which you can access via the links in this endnote).

Even though we think we see the world so fully, what we are receiving is really just hints

Scientific advances are enabled by a technology advance that allows us to see what we have not been able to see before.

Everyone takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world. —ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER

Intelligence is that faculty of mind by which order is perceived in a situation previously considered disordered." —R. W. Young

You learn something every day if you pay attention.

My mom calls me an older soul because, growing up, she taught me stuff real early. Now I spend most of my time chasing wisdom, chasing understanding.

A veces uno tiene que esperar a que las cosas sucedan por más que intuya lo que podría suceder, porque si no, te toman por loco.

the greatest of their teachings has been the importance of looking to the forest itself for answers.

Every person you encounter, whom you interact with, is there to teach you something. Sometimes it may be years before you realize what each had to show you.

Boys... You're all idiots" - Carlaine

Ray did not but could have said, *quote* Me, I read books [.....] How's about you? *closequote*

One must see everything.

Hindsight is expensive. Foresight is valuable.

Thinking is the soul speaking to itself.

If there is such a thing as philosophical progress, then why – unlike scientific progress – is it so invisible? Philosophical progress is invisible because it is incorporated into our points of view. What was torturously secured by complex argument comes widely shared intuition, so obvious that we forget its provenance.