Quotes About Insight

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.

I think of a poem as being deeper than headline news.

Answer, if you hear the words under the words- otherwise it is just a world with a lot of rough edges, difficult to get through, and our pockets full of stones.

What did these people know that the rest of us did not know?

What did these people know that the rest of us did not yet know?

If you are ready for the secret, you already possess one half of it,therefore, you will readily recognize the other half the moment it reaches your mind.

Before we can master an enemy, we must know its name, its habits, and its place of abode.

It was a great surprise to me when I discovered that most of the ugliness I saw in others, was but a reflection of my own nature.

Then accumulated knowledge is not wisdom? A Great heavens, no! If knowledge were wisdom, the achievements of science would not have been converted into implements of destruction.

The majority of people who acquire wisdom do so after they have passed the age of forty. Prior to that time the majority of people are too busy gathering knowledge and organizing it into plans to spend any effort seeking wisdom.

ASK any wise man what he most desires and he will, more than likely, say more wisdom.

IT PAYS TO KNOW HOW TO PURCHASE KNOWLEDGE

Through the aid of the sixth sense, you will be warned of impending dangers in time to avoid them, and notified of opportunities in time to embrace them.

Sometimes the subconscious mind manifests a wisdom several steps or even years ahead of the conscious mind, and has its own way of leading us towards our destiny.

supreme object of your meditation be Truth. At the outset, meditation must be distinguished from idle

The lawyers know a dead man's thoughts too well.

Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen.

Cats have gnosis to a degree that is granted to few bishops.

Is a little experience too much to pay for learning to know oneself?

I never knew any man who had once tasted the sweetness of experimental knowledge, that ever afterward fasted after ye Vapour garlick and onions of phantasmatical seeming philosophy. [William Petty]

You are a serious person, but your seriousness is attached to what you do, not to what goes on outside you. You dwell upon yourself too much. That's the trouble. And that produces a terrible fatigue." But what else can anyone do, don Juan? Seek and see the marvels all around you. You will get tired of looking at yourself alone, and that fatigue will make you deaf and blind to everything else.

Power rests on the kind of knowledge one holds. What is the sense of knowing things that are useless?

For instance, we need to look with our eyes to laugh," he said, "because only when we look at things can we catch the funny edge of the world. On the other hand, when our eyes see, everything is so equal that nothing is funny.

Only as a warrior can one withstand the path of knowledge . . ..