Quotes About Insight

But there is a truth here; seeing is magical. Looking kills. The longer I looked, the more the magic faded.

True intelligence requires fabulous imagination.

Strip the veneer, and the world had moved only a couple of steps from the cave.

like we're hanging on your every brilliant deduction.

He's a piece of the jigsaw.' 'Maybe so, John, but if he is, he's a bit of sky or cloud – I can see the picture clearly enough without him.

It was starting to seem to her that being "forward-thinking" too often involved avoiding any kind of thought at all - especially about things that might benefit from a great deal of thinking.

No one knows what women want!

En realidad, una de las grandes fortalezas de la ciencia es la habilidad para inferir cosas que no podemos observar directamente a partir de las que sí podemos.

If we're genuinely interested in a book we can even bring ourselves to be greatful when others draw our attention to things we've missed or misunderstood.

Before you criticise someone, walk a mile in their shoes. If you still insist on criticising them, you'll have mike head start and they'll have no shoes.

Who lives sees, but who travels sees more.

I wish more people would belabor the obvious, and more often.

Looking back on it today, I can see that Ice was giving

A lot of times I'd step out of my own zone as Scotty Appleton and tell Wesley or Chris or Judd how shit really would get said in the game. Subtle little things like gestures and looks. Things I lived firsthand, things I witnessed, I was able to add that into the performances.

Some people have something to say. Some people have to say something Avoid the second group.

The more you look at 'common knowledge', the more you realise that it is more likely to be common than it is to be knowledge. No real knowledge is common.

They say: 'Seek wisdom while you have the strength, or you may lose the strength without gaining wisdom.

To 'see both sides' of a problem is the surest way to prevent its complete solution. Because there are always more than two sides.

Wisdom is when you understand what, previously, at best you only knew.

People who speak or act in an ordinary fashion are most likely to be those who have been the recipients of higher experiences. But because they do not rage around, wild-eyed, people think that they are very ordinary folk and therefore not aware of anything unknown to the general run of man.

There can be no spirituality, according to the Sufi masters, without psychology, psychological insight and sociological balance.

If you seek a teacher, try to become a real student. If you want to be a student, try to find a real teacher.

Talent is the presence of ability and absence of understanding about the source and operation of knowledge.

Two people can illustrate crudity to you. The first is the crude man, whom you see perceiving the diamond as a stone. The other is the refined man, who makes clear to you the crudity of the first one.