Quotes About Insight

The imagination of the wise is truer than the knowledge of fools.

La imaginación del sabio es más verdadera que el conocimiento de los tontos.

Truth is what you can learn, not what you think you must learn. It is what is there, not what you want to be there.

Someone saw Nasrudin searching for something on the ground. 'What have you lost, Mulla?' he asked. 'My key,' said the Mulla. So they both went down on their knees and looked for it. After a time the other man asked: 'Where exactly did you drop it?' 'In my own house.' 'Then why are you looking here?' 'There is more light here than inside my own house.

Enlightenment must come little by little - otherwise it would overwhelm.

Sometimes a pessimist is only an optimist with extra information.

Opinion is usually something which people have when they lack comprehensive information.

The sufis believe that they can experience something more complete.

Study the assumptions behind your actions. Then study the assumptions behind your assumptions.

Please, not again what you studied, how long you spent at it, how many books you wrote, what people thought of you - but: what did you learn?

If, from time to time, you give up expectation, you will be able to perceive what it is you are getting.

It is not important to have said a thing first, or best - or even most interestingly. What is important is to say it on the right occasion.

the wise know nothing at all well maybe one song

Everyone has it To know what it is. Take a journey deep within And open your eyes wide. Then you will see everything.

Many of the most profound discoveries were reported to have come through intuition rather than sequential analysis processed by linguistic understanding.

The essence of enlightenment … is a big understanding, which gives you a deep and wide perspective to see the world as a whole, and a capacity to accept with compassion all that is. 11/26

Anything that's different from your own realm of experience as a human being, whether it's driving a car or a boat, or using guns, anything that separates you from yourself and leads you more towards this character's existence is a big help.

No man can see himself unless he borrows the eyes of a friend.

Experts often possess more data than judgment.

Keep looking below surface appearances. Don't shrink from doing so just because you might not like what you find.

Tell me what you know. • Tell me what you don't know. • Then tell me what you think. • Always distinguish which from which.

Leaders need to know ground truth and not just what they get from reports and staffs.

During my career I've worked with intelligence agencies and experts of every kind, from a young lieutenant, battalion-level intelligence officer to all sixteen branches of the U.S. intelligence community. With rare exceptions, intelligence analysts do all they can to give you the information and facts you need to understand the enemy and the situation and come up with the best decision.

As the saying goes, "Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.