Quotes About Insight

Let your resistance, judgements, angers and fears inform you.

The dreamer's untamed eye sees beyond the illusions to the heart of what is real.

The master of any craft is first a master of self, cooperating with innate intelligence within.

The only true path to wisdom is through experience and reflection.

Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn't.

Mistakes are great, the more I make the smarter I get.

Meditation brings wisdom; lack of meditation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what hold you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom.

Meditation brings wisdom; lack of mediation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what hold you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom

Again a different meaning has to be understood.

Know well what leads you forward and what holds you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom.

The heavens and the earth may be captured by the mind's eye.

You write what you know because -- like there's another choice? The trick is to try and know as much as possible.

Books are the glass of council to dress ourselves by.

The villager may have this hidden wisdom as clearly as the man who has seen and done, who has fought, loved and travelled far and well.

We must not be too proud or too stupid to profit by our mistakes—and God knows we make 'em.

Among the eulogies raised to the departed general, the terse words of his friend Whitelaw Reid seemed to summarize most perceptively the mercurial Sherman: "He never acknowledged an error and never repeated it.

One of the coolest and wisest hours a man has, is just after he awakes in the morning.

The devil is very sagacious. To judge by the event, he appears to have understood man better even than the Being who made him.

How can you see better of a dark night than anybody else, never mind how foolish?

How wondrous familiar is a fool!

Methinks that in looking at things spiritual, we are too much like oysters observing the sun through the water, and thinking that thick water the thinnest of air.

Why don't ye be sensible, Flask? it's easy to be sensible; why don't ye, then? any man with half an eye can be sensible. I don't know that, Stubb. You sometimes find it rather hard.

Shall I call that Wise or foolish, now; if it be really wise it has a foolish look to it; yet, if it be really foolish, then has it a sort of wiseish look to it.

The intensest light of reason and revelation combined, cannot shed such blazonings upon the deeper truths in a man, as will sometimes proceed from his own profoundest gloom. Utter darkness is then his light, and cat-like he distinctly sees all objects through a medium which is mere blindness to common vision.