Quotes About Insight

To understand is to perceive patterns.

Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way, and that so many things that one goes worrying about are of no importance whatsoever.

Of all the idiots I have met in my life, and the Lord knows they have not been few or little, I think that I have been the biggest.

You don't need to put someone under for a blood transfusion! [pauses, realizes] It's more than that, isn't it?

Every Mistake Teach Us a Lesson

One of the joys of reading is the ability to plug into the shared wisdom of mankind.

Of all our possessions, wisdom alone is imortal.

Of all possessions wisdom alone is immortal.

The Creator has – I say it in all reverence - drawn a myriad red herrings across the track, but the true scientist refuses to be baffled by superficial appearances in detecting the secrets of Nature. The vulgar herd catches at the gross apparent fact, but the man of insight knows what lies on the surfaces does lie.

The scriptures are within yourself; [those that are written down] only point out what you have not been able to see on your own.

These things are endless. When you try fixing your mind on the places you contact with your eyes and ears, you'll find that everything between Heaven and Earth can become the seed of some resourcefulness. There is nothing under Heaven that cannot be said to be your teacher. Everything is important to you, so search it out. When there is absolutely nothing important enough for you to search out, there will be nothing left for you to receive from mankind.

From listening comes wisdom, and from speaking repentance.

When God punishes a land, he deprives it leaders of wisdom.

Proverbs bear age and he who should do well may view himself in them as in a looking-glass.

He that jokes confesses.

He who knows little quickly tells it.

Illness tells us what we are.

The satirist is prevented by repulsion from gaining a better knowledge of the world he is attracted to, yet he is forced by attraction to concern himself with the world that repels him.

What harbor can receive you more securely than a great library?

If you want to know how much darkness there is around you, you must sharpen your eyes, peering at the faint lights in the distance.

And she knew him and so herself, for although she had always known herself she had never been able to recognize it until now.

You'll understand when you've forgotten what you understood before

Leave me like this. I have come full circle and I understand. The world must be read backward. All is clear.

La conoscenza del prossimo ha questo di speciale: passa necessariamente attraverso la conoscenza di se stesso.