Quotes About Insight

Just learning to think in another language allows you to see your own culture in a better viewpoint.

That army of yours, that the world with its devas can't overcome, I will smash with discernment

The darkest night is ignorance.

Doubt everything. Find your own light.

As I said, be careful from whom one gains knowledge and be aware of the price of its acquisition.

To know our enemy we must understand their trajectory. If I can know their history I can predict their future.

Just as some things must be seen to be believed, some must be believed to be seen.

a good exercise when worrying is to ask yourself, What am I choosing not to see right now? Worry may well be distracting you from something important. For

Albert Einstein said that when you follow intuition, "The solutions come to you, and you don't know how or why.

I've read a lot of books, so I know bunches of stuff that sounds like it could be true.

My grandmother used to say life was so much easier when you were simple-minded. It's taken me almost my whole life to understand what she meant.

frustrated because it's going too fast to see but if you could see it, it wouldn't make any sense because you'd be looking too close

Imagination is just what others use to get things they can't understand into their heads. Rarely – if ever – do they actually fit there. -Hermes

Joker: I don't mind you saying that, Johnny. Sometimes, I need to hear the obvious... now is not one of those times, though.

One who wishes to lead the people must learn the art of following them.

One of the great joys of science is to understand something for the first time–to really understand, which is very different from, and far more satisfying than, knowing the facts.

That dizzying feeling of confusion, if (hopefully) followed by an epiphany of clarity, is the joy of science. If the reader is feeling the former, we hope to deliver the latter by the end of the book.

Today's crisis, is tomorrow's wisdom.

With age does not come wisdom

You know," she had said, "I believe we are all given at least one moment in our lives when the world reveals itself to us, in all its workings. We comprehend everything at once, and then forget almost all of it a second later, because none of us could hold it all in our heads. But we are changed afterward," shaking her head, "in a most profound way.

Children had the gift, the second sight, the sixth sense. Sometimes she wondered if most writers were really just children who'd never grown up.

You will learn to be more grateful. It comes with experience

Science is the process that takes us from confusion to understanding...

Understanding requires insight. Insight must be anchored.