Quotes About Insight

Saber muito não lhe torna inteligente. A inteligência se traduz na forma que você recolhe, julga, maneja e, sobretudo, onde e como aplica esta informação.

The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that was it isn't so funny.

The shaman is not merely a sick man, or a madman; he is a sick man who has healed himself.

The bigger you build the bonfire, the more darkness is revealed.

Even as the nineteenth century had to come to grips with the notion of human descent from apes, we must now come to terms with the fact that those apes were stoned apes.

Nothing comes unannounced, but many can miss the announcement. So it's very important to actually listen to your own intuition rather than driving through it.

A hallucination is a species of reality, as capable of teaching you as a videotape about Kilimanjaro or anything else that falls through your life.

The race isn't to the swift, it's to the thoughtful.

There is no mundane dimension really, if you have the eyes to see it, it is all transcendental.

A hallucination is to be in the presence of that which previously could not be imagined, and if it previously could not be imagined then there is no grounds for believing that you generated it out of yourself.

I think there's a very strong Calvinistic bias against a free lunch. The idea that you could achieve a spiritual insight without suffering, soul-searching, flagellation, and that sort of thing, is abhorrent to people because they believe that the vision of these higher dimensions should be vouchsafed to the good, and probably to them only after death. It is alarming to people to think that they could take a substance like psilocybin or DMT and have these kinds of experiences.

MarkBaynard: I figured out in the first grade that it was better to crack a joke than somebody's skull.

There is none so blind as he who will not see.

How did you know? This may be a large house, but I'm not blind. Or deaf. [..]Well, you needn't avail yourself of any romantic notions. He was just doing his duty. And with unflagging enthusiasm, I might add. Diana said dryly.

Truisms, my young friend, are the useless children of hindsight.

The future was painted on a canvas of infinite reach; it entailed too many connections and joinings. Change one and you changed others. No amount of insight would enable a single individual to decipher it all.

A reluctance to acknowledge that there may be wisdom in youth would be foolish.

It is my job to know things, the cat said. Cats know lots of things about the world and its creatures, especially people. Cats watch and listen. It is what they do best.

what he knew to be true about himself he probably saw frequently in others, whether it was there or not.

People are strange creatures, and they don't always have a clear eye toward how things stand.

If you don't experience something firsthand, it's a lot harder to accept.

always know what that reason is.

Truisms, my young friend, are the useless children of hindsight. Well

The artistic is thus very close to the ethical. If only we could grasp the world from someone else's standpoint, we would have a fuller sense of how and why they act as they do. We would thus be less inclined to reproach them from some loftily external point of view. To understand is to forgive.