Quotes About Insight

There is a simple but profound principle that emerges from understanding the way your perceptive filters work: you won't see how to do it until you see yourself doing it.

Never underestimate anyone, it is the most dangerous form of arrogance.

The world is complicated, so people seek complicated solutions. And there's nothing wrong with that because simple answers don't usually work. But sometimes the answers are simple and people still refuse to see them. - Edgar Roy

Simply because you've lived through something doesn't mean you understand its true significance or even recall the details of it correctly.

Maybe that's how the world was now, thought Dan. Everyone was so wrapped up in his or her own little world that no one ever really saw anything anymore.

If it doesn't make sense the way I'm thinking it through, it means I'm thinking it through wrong. But then what way is right? He

Small observations can lead to large breakthroughs.

Lo único que puede ser peor que no ver el bosque por culpa de los árboles es no ver los árboles por culpa del bosque. ANÓNIMO

the individual can find truth by using his powers of observation and reason instead of blindly following tradition.

Dostoyevsky wrote that 'while nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer, nothing is more difficult than to understand him.

Which goes to show an appreciation of history can be very helpful in day-to-day living.

Once the emotions are gone, analytics are all you have left.

sort of thing. Think you

Hindsight held a level of perfection that real-time decision-making could not provide.

Although our modern way of thinking has, of course, changed a great deal relative to the ancient one, the two have had one key feature in common: i.e. they are both generally 'blinkered' by the notion that theories give true knowledge about 'reality as it is'. Thus, both are led to confuse the forms and shapes induced in our perceptions by theoretical insight with a reality independent of our thought and our way of looking.

If one considers this question carefully, one can see that in a certain sense the East was right to see the immeasurable as the primary reality. For, as has already been indicated, measure is an insight created by man. A reality that is beyond man and prior to him cannot depend on such insight.

One may speculate that perhaps in ancient times, the men who were wise enough to see that the immeasurable is the primary reality were also wise enough to see that measure is insight into a secondary and dependent but nonetheless necessary aspect of reality.

What is essential here is that the act of creative perception in the form of a metaphor is basically similar in all these fields, in that it involves an extremely perceptive state of intense passion and high energy that dissolves the excessively rigidly held assumptions in the tacit infrastructure of commonly accepted knowledge.

Tomorrow belongs to those who hear it coming.

The eyes that saw too much because they did not close enough.

Because the eye has seen, thoughts are structured upon images and not upon ideas.

For the first time, I saw my behavior from someone else's point of view.

Next I asked Maria the miracle cure question: If a miracle happened in today's session, what miracle would she be hoping for?

A day in which you learn something isn't a complete loss.