Quotes About Insight

The eye is for both seeing and weeping. Sin must first be seen before it can be wept for.

This light does that which no other light can. It makes a man perceive himself to be blind.

I have to see a thing a thousand times before I see it once.

One learns more from listening than speaking.And both the wind and the people who continue to live close to nature still have much to tell us which we cannot hear within university walls.

She reads a lot of books. Good things, books.

Literature is the orchestration of platitudes.

The theatre is supremely fitted to say: Behold! These things are. Yet most dramatists employ it to say: This moral truth can be learned from beholding this action.

There is nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head.

Faith is a never-ending pool of clarity, reaching far beyond the margins of consciousness. We all know more than we know we know.

The art of biography is more difficult than is generally supposed.

Everybody should eavesdrop once in a while. There's nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head.

As Plato, the dangerous beguiler, said: the best philosophers in the world are boys with their beards new on their chins; I am a boy again.

Once you have swung a pickax that will reveal the curve of a street four thousand years covered over which was once an active, much-traveled highway, you are never quite the same again.

We all know more than we know we know.

Thornton Wilder

It was not necessary to explain that nothing escaped the eyes of Coaltown except the truth.)

Live people don't understand, do they?

Any sage can do philosophy, but not every philosopher is a sage.

También en este caso, es una estupidez enfadarse con el síntoma y, absurdo, tratar de suprimirlo impidiendo su manifestación. Lo que debemos eliminar no es el síntoma, sino la causa. Por consiguiente, si queremos descubrir qué es lo que nos señala el síntoma, tenemos que apartar la mirada de él y buscar más allá.

de El Kybalión también, que afirma que «los labios de la Sabiduría permanecen cerrados, excepto para el oído capaz de comprender».

Os lábios da Sabedoria estão fechados, exceto aos ouvidos do Entendimento.

The voice of wisdom is silent, except to the open mind.

Los labios de la sabiduría están cerrados, excepto para los oídos del entendimiento." El Kybalión.

Los labios de la sabiduría permanecen cerrados excepto para el oído capaz de comprender.»