Quotes About Insight

What a mean 'learns' is really what he 'discovers,' by taking the cover off his own soul, which is a mine of infinite knowledge.

If you took the monsters' point of view, everything they did made perfect sense. The trick was learning to think like a monster.

Go out into the world where your heart calls you. The blessings will come, I promise you that. I wish for you the insight to recognize the blessings as such, and sometimes it's hard. But you'll know it's a blessing if you are enriched and transformed by the experience. So be ready. There are great souls and teachers everywhere. It's your job to recognize them.

It was easy to see that I was recreating my painful history every time I talked about it.

What I learnt came to me . . . at second and at third hand, in chunks and puzzles, degrees and flashes.

Writing is the ability to ask yourself questions and wait for the answers.

Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.

Never take the advice of someone who has not had your kind of trouble.

The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.

Ninety per cent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtues. Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves -- so how can we know anyone else?

Soup and fish explain half the emotions of human life.

If you want to improve your understanding, drink coffee. Sir James Mackintosh used to say, he believed the difference between one man and another was produced by the quantity of coffee he drank.

Daniel Webster struck me much like a steam engine in trousers.

He was a one-book man. Some men have only one book in them; others, a library.

If you want to improve your understanding, drink coffee.

What you don't know would make a great book.

I think they paid attention to their lives and became wise. For those of us who don't arrive at wisdom naturally, meditation is one way to get there through practice.

Knowing the truth brings happiness.

The more painful it is, tragically, the more you do learn, though, that's the good part.

The Nez Perce say: "Every animal knows more than you do.

Seek wisdom, not knowledge. Knowledge is of the past, Wisdom is of the future. –Lumbee

There are different kinds of truth. And if our kind is more mature than theirs, it's so only because we know that.

It's not enough just to learn what there ISN'T; we need to know what there IS.

Yet if they kept on, without knowing, then someday they might discover something totally new and significant just from having followed a different path, something Elana's people had missed. Thousands of years from now, the natives of this world might do the same! If that was how it worked, then it was worth whatever sacrifice anybody had to make.