Quotes About Insight

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Control yourself and no one else And you will see the Truth my brother

And maybe you are starting to notice my quote on the page "Look without, and you will be fulfilled within without a doubt." I really mean that look without, without of yourself not within.

gifted children perceive the world in fundamentally different ways

Just seems more complicated than other people. This complex human being may be at once "more naive and more knowledgeable, being at home equally to primitive symbolism and rigorous logic. He or she is both more primitive and more cultured, more destructive and more constructive, occasionally crazier, and yet adamantly saner than the average person.

All books are judged by their covers until they are read.

In the words of Agatha Swanburne, founder of Swanburne Academy, "Every book is judged by its cover until it is read.

Many are happy to give advice; few are happy to take it.

Agatha Swanburne - "All things look different close up.

Agatha Swanburne - "Not all things should be baked in a pie.

But, Lumawoo, look. No motto.

I'm sorry. This is diary, not enlightenment.

All instruction is but as a finger pointing to the moon; and he whose gaze is fixed upon the pointer will never see beyond.

In Buddhism, compassion always goes with wisdom. Compassion without wisdom is not understood to be true compassion, and wisdom without compassion is not true wisdom.

Creativity comes from looking for the unexpected and stepping outside your own experience.

In order to survive, we cling to all we know and understand. And label it reality. But knowledge and understanding are ambiguous. That reality could be an illusion. All humans live with the wrong assumptions. Isn't that another way of looking at it? That sharingan how much can you really se?

The mystery existing between an open moment and a person's preparedness reveals the truth.

Books allowed her vicarious tastes of infinite variety, but they didn't supplant the need to venture out into the big and the messy. In fact, just the opposite. Books convinced her that something more existed---something intuitive, beyond reason---and they whetted her appetite to find it.

Sophistication knows the score, but is powerless to change it.

Only the broken-hearted know the truth about love.

At sixty, I know little more about wisdom than I did at thirty, but I know a great deal more about folly.

In an aphorism, aptness counts for more than truth

all types of virtue are really just different aspects of wisdom.

We are not becoming more educated; we are simply acquiring more knowledge. There is a fundamental difference between the two.