Quotes About Insight

Years do not make sages; they only make old men.

Some of the shrewdest insight into natural processes have been greeted at the outset by the exclamation 'But that's ridiculous'.

Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.

One has to discover everything for oneself. And get over it all alone.

Being alone & actually sitting with our own thoughts can lead to such growth and realizations that are rare in our everyday busy lives.

What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude.

Most often, walking alone with my shadow is how I find my answer, the result of gathering together all agreeable parties.

Good comedy helps people know they're not alone. Great comedy provides an answer.

I'm learning a lot about myself being alone, and doing what I'm doing.

When alone, concentrate on the fruits of the solitude, not on the poisons of it!

He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are.

Each of us have things and thoughts and descriptions of an amazing universe in our possession that kings in the 17th Century would have gone to war to possess.

What is really amazing, and frustrating, is mankind's habit of refusing to see the obvious and inevitable until it is there, and then muttering about unforeseen catastrophes.

Failure is an amazing data point that tells you which direction not to go.

Why is it that the uneducated minds always criticize the brilliant minds?

I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.

He who doesn't know anger doesn't know anything. He doesn't know the immediate.

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Anger begins in folly, and ends in repentance.

Anger is loaded with information and energy.

Anger is a call for awareness.

You can sometimes tell more by a man's silence and the set of his head than by what he says. By such signs you can tell, for instance, what he thinks of his wife . . .

We travelers, walking to the sun, can't see Ahead, but looking back the very light That blinded us shows us the way we came, Along which blessings now appear, risen As if from sightlessness to sight, and we, By blessing brightly lit, keep going toward That blessed light that yet to us is dark. Sabbaths 1999 VI