Quotes About Insight

Being informed is prerequisite to being enlightened.

We do not have to know everything about something in order to understand it; too many facts are often as much of an obstacle to understand­ ing as too few. There is a sense in which we modems are inun­ dated with facts to the detriment of understanding.

Me, I've seen 45 years, and I've only figured out one thing. That's this: if a person would just make the effort, there's something to be learned from everything. From even the most ordinary, commonplace things, there's always something you can learn. I read somewhere that they said there's even different philosophies in razors. Fact is, if it weren't for that, nobody'd survive.

La historia está llena de sabios que no se han conocido nunca a sí mismos

Nothing infuriates people more than their own lack of spiritual insight.

Do you know, Sandy dear, all my ambitions are for you and Rose. You have got insight, perhaps not quite spiritual, but you're a deep one, and Rose has got instinct.' 'Perhaps not quite spiritual' said Sandy. 'Yes,' said Miss Brodie, 'you're right. Rose has got a future by virtue of her instinct.' ... 'I ought to know because my prime has brought me instinct and insight, both.

you will have the benefit of my experiences in Italy.

I knew that she was so clever that it was unnecessary for her to be beautiful.

Age is not the flight of years, but the dawn of wisdom.

Your subjective mind performs its highest functions when your objective senses are not functioning. In other words, it is that intelligence that makes itself known when the objective mind is suspended or in a sleepy, drowsy state.

The utterly ordinary is utterly extraordinary. It all depends on how you see things, and whether you are willing to look deeply, and live by what you see and feel and know.

As far as I am concerned, poetry is a statement concerning the human condition, composed in verse.

When you read, don't consider only what the author thinks, but take time to consider what you think.

To fight evil, you have to understand the dark.

The secret of successful education is finding out how a particular person learns.

Houses are entirely different when you know them well, she thought, and on first acquaintance even more different from their real selves, more deceptive about their real character than human beings.

he liked picking Hector's brains on international subjects, or rather, allowing Hector's brains to flow over him in a glowing lava of thought.

The old ones say that a man can have knowledge without wisdom but he cannot have wisdom without knowledge.

I have discovered by way of a very circuitous route never to give advice, only to share what works best in my own life.

Girl discovers reading, then discovers life.

A Prayer for Daily Insight Open my eyes, God. Help me to perceive what I have ignored, to uncover what I have forgotten, to find what I have been searching for. Remind me that I don't have to journey far to discover something new, for miracles surround me, blessings and holiness abound. And You are near. Amen.

What perfectly sensible advice. It sat in my stomach, an indigestible lump.

I turned back and tried again, and once more I was sure that I was understanding, and all of it made perfect sense - better than perfect sense, even; it had the feeling of truth, of something that I'd always known and just hadn't ever put into words, or of explaining clearly and plainly something I'd never understood.

In Sapienta Umbraculum — in Wisdom, Shelter