Quotes About Insight

Como você sabe o que sinto? Você toma liberdades com a mente alheia. Não dá pra você saber como me sinto, o que sinto ou por que sinto.

Anyone who has common sense will remember that the bewilderments of the eyes are of two kinds, and arise from two causes, either from coming out of the light or from going into the light

Estranho sobre aprender; quanto mais longe eu vou, mais vejo o que nunca soube que sequer existia. Algum tempo atrás, totalmente imaginei que poderia aprender tudo - todo conhecimento existente. Agora espero apenas ser capaz de saber de sua existência e entender um mínimo disso.

Boy if I get smart wont he be serprised.

There is no greater joy than the burst of solution to a problem.

As long as the writer, or any artist for that matter, keeps his mouth shut, there can be argument and discussion and various interpretations and meanings. But once the writer explains or analyzes, he trivializes his own work.

Qualquer um pode se sentir inteligente ao lado de um imbecil.

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Ordinary people, she said, can see only a little bit. They can't change much or go any higher than they are, but you're a genius. You'll keep going up and up, and see more and more. And each step will reveal worlds you never even knew existed.

Anyway I bet Im the first dumb person in the world who ever found out something importent for sience. I remember I did something but I dont remember what. So I gess its like I did it for all the dumb pepul like me.

mahamudra is: Too close to be recognized, Too deep to grasp, Too easy to believe, Too amazing to be understood intellectually. Those are the four obstacles that prevent its recognition.

Everything is told at the start. There is no progressive quest.

What way do I take to get there? You are the way and the destination. How do I start? By entering into profound communication with the reality of your life as it is. How do I find this capacity, develop it? By starting with what touches you or moves you naturally.

The obvious can sometimes be illuminating when perceived in an unhabitual way.

We don't need prophets to tell us how to live; we can find out for ourselves by consulting what's actually there.

When one does not see what one does not see, one does not even see that one is blind. —Paul Veyne

Listen with your heart. You will understand.

Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.

I learned from watching and I learned from doing.

Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them.

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.

She speaks with wisdom, and faithful instruction is on her tongue.

If there is anything good to be said about my particular line of work, it's that we get to tell people the news they need to hear, and to put it in context. To get to that – for one hour every night on the 'PBS NewsHour,' and for an additional half-hour every Friday night on 'Washington Week,' we have to slog through a lot of tough stuff.

Defensiveness often reveals an area of our lives where we're in denial.