Quotes About Insight

It's not how many mystical experiences you have, but how you use them. Let the understanding from them influence you a lot. Let it change your life.

If you live the questions, life will move you into the answers.

The true purpose is to see things as they are, to observe things as they are, and to let everything go as it goes.

A moment will come in everyone's life, when you will be able to figure out things clearly. So instead of getting confused now, wait for that moment.

Wisdom starts with acceptance. You can't always think that you have the answers. Accept that you may not always be right; learn something.

If you want to know your past, look into your present conditions. If you want to know your future, look into your present actions.

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

Your past shows you the mistakes you're going to commit in the future.

Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of it comes from bad judgment.

I find the folly of men amusing

I stopped watching for ridicule, the scorpion's tail hidden in his words. He said what he meant,; he was puzzled if you did not. Some people might have mistaken this for simplicity. But is it not a sort of genius to cut always to the heart?

You are wise,' he said. 'If it is so,' I said, 'it is only because I have been fool enough for a hundred lifetimes.

Do not listen to your enemy...look at them. It will tell you everything.

Mas talvez nenhum pai consiga ver seus filhos de verdade. Quando olhamos, enxergamos apenas o espelho de nossas próprias falhas.

Aber vielleicht können Eltern ihre Kinder nicht wirklich sehen. Wenn wir hinsehen, sehen wir nur das Spiegelbild unserer eigenen Fehler.

most of what passed as cleverness was only archness and spite.

Pero quizá ningún progenitor sea capaz de ver realmente a sus hijos. Cuando los miramos vemos únicamente el reflejo de nuestros propios defectos.

Is it not a sort of genius to cut always to the heart?

Most men, in my experience, are fools.

Dü?man?n? dinleme, demi?ti Odysseus bir keresinde bana. Onlara bak.Gördüklerin her ?eyi anlatacakt?r.

he said what he meant; he was puzzled if you did not. some people might have mistaken this for simplicity. but is it not a sort of genius to always cut to the heart?

La estupidez del ser humano me hace gracia.