Quotes About Insight

What we don't want to face, what we don't want to hear or listen to, whether it be nonsense, treason or sacrilege, are precisely the things we must give heed to. Even the idiot may have a message for us. Maybe I am one of those idiots. But I will have my say.

Studierea crimei începe prin a te cunoaÈ™te pe tine însuÈ›i

at Tiryns I stood in the shadow of the Cyclopean man and felt the blaze of that inner eye which has now become a sickly gland;

Writing, like life itself, is a voyage of discovery. Henry Miller

He had, moreover, a gift which I only learned the value of much later, namely, the ability to discover in every author that which is valuable and lasting.

all that is seen with the empty sockets bursts like flowering grass.

One's destruction is never a place, but rather a new way of seeing things. (Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymous Bosch)

There is a world of difference between knowing something to be true in your head and experiencing the reality in your life.

When we do this we are allowing our circumstances to inform us about God. That is backwards. We ought always to allow God to inform us about our circumstances. When

If you stand right fronting and face-to-face to a fact, you will see the sun glimmer on both its surfaces, as if it were a scimitar, and feel its sweet edge dividing you through the heart and marrow, and so you will happily conclude your mortal career.

Think not, because no man sees Such things will remain unseen

Much learning does not teach understanding.

Whoever cannot seek the unforeseen sees nothing for the known way is an impasse.

Wisdom is the oneness of mind that guides and permeates all things.

Abundance of knowledge does not teach men to be wise.

Thinking is a sacred disease and sight is deceptive.

The awake share a common world, but the asleep turn aside into private worlds.

Information. The other side seems to know more about you and your needs than you know about them and their needs.

But does the salesman know something about you? Yes.

Enlightenments, like accidents, happen only to prepared minds.

No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.

But vain to popularize profundities, and all truth is profound.

there are some persons in this world, who, unable to give better proof of being wise, take a strange delight in showing what they think they have sagaciously read in mankind by uncharitable suspicions of them.

Dissect him how I may, then, I but go skin deep; I know him not, and never will.