Quotes About Insight

Oh, Jay, close your eyes. With open eyes, you can see only what is in front of you; Close your eyes, and you can see everything. I am here, deep in your heart.

When I am conscious that I am the master of my brain, I can actively process emotion and information. I develop the insight to see my situation clearly, like when a light bulb is turned on in a dark room.

No matter how good your eyesight, if you don't open your eyes, you will not see anything. So too with the Tao. Everyone has eyes to see the Tao, but opening those eyes is a separate issue. The Tao is there, in that place beyond the limits of rational logic, judgment, ideas, and ego. To see the Tao, we must take away the blindfold of judgment, ideas, and ego that blinds our eyes.

Don't get so caught up in looking behind you forget to look ahead.

I doubted I would need my eyes. I drew in the dark, after all.

Watch, God— deaf have something to tell that not even they can hear.

one measure of a book is the degree to which it generates good questions,

For a quick second, when he met my eyes, I knew what he was thinking, too. Malcolm, the troublemaker. Malcolm, the one who won't toe the line. Looking in his eyes—a thing I maybe never did before—it speared me.

Wer von wenig Wissen nicht profitiert, ist weit davon entfernt, von viel Wissen zu profitieren.

Look closely. The beautiful may be small.

Genius is the ability to independently arrive at and understand concepts that would normally have to be taught by another person.

The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.

Imagination is usually nothing but the search for middle run profits by those to whom short run channels are blocked. When

In fact the experience at Oxford has really helped me later in life.

The more you study, the more you know; how less you know.

You keep everything under observation and that's why you don't notice anything.

With the aid of a minute correction - that of the dispersing lens - in a gold frame perched on her nose, Miranda can see into hell.

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards." – Soren Kierkegaard

Intuition comes very close to clairvoyance; it appears to be the extrasensory perception of reality." —Alexis Carrel

until we can identify the root cause of our actions, we are doomed to make some version of the same mistakes again and again.

People are almost never what you think. Don't even try to figure them out. Something Andy once read in a magazine. Turns out it's true.

I make all my decisions on intuition. But then, I must know why I made that decision. I throw a spear into the darkness. That is intuition. Then I must send an army into the darkness to find the spear. That is intellect.

Its so horrible to see your own confusion and understand it.

I throw a spear into the darkness. That is intuition. Then I must send an army into the darkness to find the spear. That is intellect.