Quotes About Insight

Sometimes we must unfocus our way to clarity.

Sometimes we don't look up unless we have a reason to. And then it all becomes clear.

The reverse side also has a reverse side.

Bedside manners are no substitute for the right diagnosis.

No man is a good doctor who has never been sick himself.

We are dying to-day from ignorance, not from knowledge...

Adversity is the first path to truth...

Scorpios know that sometimes the poison is the cure.

The penetrating gaze of a Scorpio is unlikely to miss any detail.

A truly special teacher is very wise, and sees tomorrow in every child's eyes.

Don't look where you fall, but where you slipped.

Sherlock Holmes pointed out that one might see, yet not observe. That's a basic cause of much human failure.

When you lose, don't lose the lesson.

It isn't what you know that counts, it's what you think of in time.

To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.

To learn about eye protection, ask someone who has one.

"Nothing ever goes away until it teaches us what we need to know"

Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.

The ultimate security is your understanding of reality.

While we can learn or study techniques for almost anything we might want to accomplish, real understanding is not the mere accumulation of knowledge. Understanding cannot be realized by listening or reading about the realization of others. It must be achieved firsthand via substantive, direct perception in the moment.

The best teacher is not the one who knows most but the one who is most capable of reducing knowledge to that simple compound of the obvious and wonderful.

The function of genius is not to give new answers, but to pose new questions, which time and mediocrity can resolve.

Act on awareness, not on thought

Clear sight results from a still mind