Quotes About Insight

It is better to live alone than to have a fool for a companion.

It is easy to see the flaws of others, hard to see one's own. One exposes flaws of others, yet hides one's own flaws.

Ez a történet nem érte el célját, ha az olvasó nem vette észre, hogy az Å'rnagy fajankó volt.

The past closer, more comparable, a way to justify present action.

Self-deception actually determines one's experience in every aspect of life.

Self-deception is like this. It blinds us to the true causes of problems, and once we're blind, all the "solutions" we can think of will actually make matters worse.

While it's true that she's doing everything she can think of, the problem is precisely that she can't see how she's the problem. Having the problem she has, nothing she can think of will be a solution.

The biggest help in finding my way forward and out of the box was finding an out-of-the-box place, or vantage point, within me.

I was free to see a different past along with a different present and future. I was freed from the limitations and distortions of the box.

Living is easier with eyes closed.

And have you traveled very far? Far as the eye can see. How often have you been there? Often enough to know. What did you see when you were there? Nothing that doesn't show. (from the 1967 song, Baby You're a Rich Man.

In fact, if one reads attentively what Sri Aurobindo has written, all that he has written, one would have the answer to every question.

Love is wiser than wisdom." ? Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves.

Aber er hatte lange genug gelebt, um zu wissen, dass alle Zeichen trügen und dass wir in unsrer Eifersucht, trotz ihrer hundert Augen, oft noch mehr in die Irre gehen, als in der Blindheit unsres Vertrauens.

Und dann sehe ich doch auch gleich, dass Sie anders sind als andere, dafür haben wir Frauen ein scharfes Auge.

The splinter in your eye is the best magnifying-glass available.

Ah, well, when you explain it like that, it seems obvious, said Mudge. Of course, it always seems obvious once it's been explained.

Like most visionaries, he's not particularly observant of the material world.

A clever companion—had she ever had one—would have warned her never to look a man in the eyes so steadily.

In a dark time, the eye begins to see

And you just know he knows he knows.

You can't motivate a student you don't know.

We are now in a position to determine just what sort of science fiction story this really is.