Quotes About Insight

Christian, hath not God secretly instructed thee by his Spirit from the Word, how to read the shorthand of his providence? Dost

Truth lies deep, and must be digged for. Since

Nobody is going to enjoy reading the contents of this book, but those who do read will be able to see things in their true perspective; they will be able to understand what is happening in the world today and why.

I keep [a] subject constantly before me," Newton once remarked, "and wait 'till the first dawnings open slowly, by little and little, into a full and clear light.

The mind of a General makes one a General.

The novel does not say, it shows; it shows me my life in a figure: it compels me to stare at my toes.

A book is like a deck of windows

When book and reader's furrowed brow meet, it isn't always the book that's stupid.

A smart man learns from experience; a wise man learns from the experience of others.

The Noble Eightfold Path can be divided into three stages of training: s?la, sam?dhi, and paññ?. S?la is moral practice, abstention from all unwholesome actions of body and speech. Sam?dhi is the practice of concentration, developing the ability to consciously direct and control one's own mental processes. Paññ? is wisdom, the development of purifying insight into one's own nature.

As we learn about each other, so we learn about ourselves

You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

The seat of knowledge is in the head, of wisdom, in the heart.

His sayings are generally like women's letters; all the pith is in the postscript.

Learning is its own exceeding great reward.

Just as much as we see in others we have in ourselves.

The perceiving our own weaknesses enables us to give others excellent advice, but it does not teach us to to reform ourselves.

Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own.

revelation hit me like an ice-water enema.

shook a cigarette from my pack and offered one to Danny who wagged his head negatively. "I didn't think you could finger her for me, Danny," I said, lighting up. "But you've been around a while now. Tell me who the old-timers are. Put me wise to someone who knows the score." Danny

Investing is a journey of lifelong learning

If fish were scientists, probably the last thing they would discover is water!

Experience has ways of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas

The essence of genius is to know what to overlook.