Quotes About Insight

Si los muertos ven claramente, solo los vivos nos cegamos constante can trivalidades.

W. Scott Poole

The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.

Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.

We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.

When the mind is free of any thought or judgment, it is still and acts like a mirror. Then and only then can we know things as they are.

You need to be able to read music. For the last three parts you need to be able to play a keyboard instrument well enough to navigate at least most of the musical examples. It helps to have previously investigated the overtone series, or be ready to (the text helps you). Also, the more you are in the habit of listening to the music of the world's various cultures, the more insight you will bring to this study.

It is so many years before one can believe enough in what one feels even to know what the feeling is

Surely some revelation is at hand.

He who made you bitter made you wise.

every one is a visionary, if you scratch him deep enough. But the Celt is a visionary without scratching.

Opinion is the enemy of the artist because it arms his uninspired moment against his inspiration.

Bodily decrepitude is wisdom

The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.

A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.

I am sure it is everyone's experience, as it has been mine, that any discovery we make about ourselves or the meaning of life is never, like a scientific discovery, a coming upon something entirely new and unsuspected; it is rather, the coming to conscious recognition of something, which we really knew all the time but, because we were unwilling to formulate it correctly, we did not hitherto know we knew.

Let me see what I wrote so I know what I think

Time will say nothing but I told you so, Time only knows the price we have to pay; If I could tell you I would let you know.

There's always another story. There's more than meets the eye.

Aunque sea una gran hazaña añadir algo, aunque sólo sea una pizca, a la suma del conocimiento humano, más grande todavía es añadir un pensamiento. Para un hombre, es mejor intentar ser a la vez poeta y naturalista que ser demasiado naturalista y pasar por alto la belleza de las cosas, o demasiado poeta y no entenderlas o no poder ver siquiera las bellezas escondidas que sólo se revelan tras una observación atenta.

all I did not know went on beginning around me I had thought it would come later but it had been waiting

Poetry is a way of looking at the world for the first time.

turning the pages patiently in search of meanings

Any fool may write a most valuable book by chance, if he will only tell us what he heard and saw with veracity.