Quotes About Insight

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Maybe it was just one of those days when you hear an old question a new way, that quite suddenly shifts your perspective.

Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.

Everything is fresh, the essence of realization.

To be fearless isn't really to overcome fear, it's to come to know its nature.

We can only stand in the shoes of others to the degree that we can stand in our own.

The experience of labeling your thoughts "thinking" also, over time, becomes much more vivid.

the dharma itself supplies the tools and support we need to find our own beauty, our own insight, our own ability to work with neurosis and pain.

In My Stroke of Insight, the brain scientist Jill Bolte Taylor's book about her recovery from a massive stroke, she explains the physiological mechanism behind emotion: an emotion like anger that's an automatic response lasts just ninety seconds from the moment it's triggered until it runs its course.

Only with equanimity can we see that everything that comes into our circle has come to teach us what we need to know.

A man who called everyone a damn fool is like a man who damns the weather. He only shows that he is not adapted to his environment, not that the environment is wrong.

Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it.

The person who knows only his side of the argument knows little of that.

I never allow myself to have an opinion on anything that I don't know the other side's argument better than they do.

People's minds are changed through observation and not through argument.

Hear one side and you will be in the dark. Hear both and all will be clear.

Follow the argument wherever it leads.

Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.

By the very act of arguing, you awake the patient's reason; and once it is awake, who can foresee the result?

If I know your sect, I anticipate your argument

I read here and there in books, enjoying the examples and ignoring the argument.

The great charm in argument is really finding one's own opinions, not other people's.

The idea comes before the logical argument.

When I know your soul, I will paint your eyes.