Quotes About Insight

Relationship is understanding. It is a process of self-revelation. Relationship is the mirror in which you discover yourself -- to be is to be related.

Give up thinking as though not giving it up. Observe techniques as though not observing.

It is futile to argue as to which single leaf, which design of branch, or which attractive flower you like; when you understand the root, you understand all its blossoming.

To see a thing uncolored by one's own personal preferences and desires is to see it in its own pristine simplicity.

To know, but to be as though not knowing, is the height of wisdom.

The most dangerous person is the one who listens, thinks and observes.

Enrich your understanding. — Don't be in a hurry to "fix" things; rather, enrich your understanding in the ever-going process of discovery and finding more the cause of your ignorance.

Do not correct a fool or he will hate you, correct a wise man and he will appreciate you.

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.

Teachers should take advantage of every opportunity to observe and learn from other teachers.

We," he intoned, "are the opportunity that recognizes itself.

If poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world, science fiction writers are its court jesters. We are Wise Fools who can leap, caper, utter prophecies, and scratch ourselves in public. We can play with Big Ideas because the garish motley of our pulp origins make us seem harmless.

In a world so redolent with wonder, how can we allow ourselves to conduct our daily lives with so little insight, such absence of dignity?

The ability to read becomes devalued when what one has learned to read adds nothing of importance to one's life.

If we hope to live not just from moment to moment, but in true consciousness of our existence, then our greatest need and most difficult achievement is to find meaning in our lives.

Even Aristotle, master of pure reason, said: 'The friend of wisdom is also a friend of myth.

Only in adulthood can any intelligent understanding of the meaning of one's existence in this world be gained from one's experiences in it.

Schaeffer was not an academic in the traditional sense, but he was a thinker, and indeed, I would suggest, a thinker with prophetic insight.

I have a lot on my mind and not a lot to do so it's going to come out, all of it, and then, then, it may begin to make a sort of sense

Although it may be disconcerting to find that something you have believed is mistaken, it is at the same time thrilling, because it opens up new worlds of re-evaluation and fresh thinking, new understanding and insight.

Life is beyond the formal logic. For this reason it's not surprising that women who intuitively perceive the world seem illogical to us.

On the still calm waters of surrender the reflections of clarity appear

Where wise actions are the fruit of life, wise discourse is the pollination.

The power of getting to know one another is so immense, eclipsed only by first getting to know ourselves.