Quotes About Insight

Argument does not teach children or the immature. Only time and experience does that.

Experience teaches us not to assume that the obvious is clearly understood

Experience is the best of school masters, only the school fees are heavy.

It is really important to have an obsessive need to construct something, to understand something from your own experience.

Everything we experience-no matter how unpleasant-comes into our lives to teach us something.

Underlying great doubt there is great satori, where there is thorough questioning there will be thoroughgoing experience of awakening.

What is it which is bought dearly, offered for nothing, and then most often refused?--Experience, old people's experience.

You can either ask the question or experience the answer.

The law is simple. Every experience is repeated or suffered till you experience it properly and fully the first time.

The more hard lessons you can learn vicariously rather than through your own hard experience, the better.

...pay attention to what users do, not what they say.

Ignorance is innocence - stupidity comes with experience

Only when I experience do I compose - only when I compose do I experience.

Experience is always a trustworthy guide; it may not tell you everything, but it never lies.

I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.

Experience is making mistakes and learning from them.

The spectacles of experience; through them you will see more clearly a second time.

I've never made a mistake. I've only learned from experience.

I've learned that ayahuasca works in levels, a little like peeling an onion. It is complex and something you really have to experience to understand.

Enlightenment is any experience of expanding our consciousness beyond its present limits.

Innovation is usually the result of connections of past experiences. But if you have the same experiences as everyone else, you are unlikely to look in a different direction.

Literature must be an analysis of experience and a synthesis of the findings into a unity.

The only real experience that counts, is your own.

The reality of art is disclosed only in experience, not in reflection upon experience.