Quotes About Insight

Walking into someone's house was like entering their body. You saw what they were made of, and what they had been stewing in all this time.

When I learned to read, it changed everything.

the Olympian vantage point that time provides:

That's your shadow, my mom told me once. You need it more than you think.

When you gaze into the Abyss, the Abyss gazes into you. (~ Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche)

If we look at it from eye corners, or from places other than the center of our head, isn't there a kind of terrible beauty in it?

I morti verze i oci ai vivi. The dead open the eyes of the living.

I know everything and nothing about him all at the same time.

If you want to know how someone really feels, you almost never have to ask.

Observation is a great joy." To write one's observations, record such wonderings, the greatest joy of all.

I don't know anything about anything. The only difference between then and now is this: I may know more than I used to but my wisdom pales in comparison to that which I have yet to learn

I didn't know anything about anything. And the only difference between then and now is this: I may know more than I used to, but my wisdom pales in comparison to that which I've yet to learn.

Once again the Scriptures are a lodestar, a benchmark, the plumb line steadies us and steers us clear of what is happening in the world and gives us a glimpse of history and politics, economics and daily experiences from God's point of view. Going back to this mother lode of wisdom and knowledge, inspired by God, brings grace and further insight not found in other devotional materials.

your ability to see is sometimes only as good as your willingness to go unseen.

But such a tiny and trivial thing as an umbrella can deprive you of the sight of such a stupendous fact as the sun.

All talk about the path and the goal is as a lantern carried by a blind man. The blind man needs a staff in his hand, the seeker needs his hand in the God-Man's

A clever man can see the world from a cave much better than a stupid man can from the top of a mountain!

A clever quote opens new paths in the minds of the clever!

A government which is not liked by the artists is certainly a bad government, because artist sees very well what is behind the masks!

An ocean which thinks there is nothing to learn from a lake is not a wise ocean!

An unfree mind is just like a windmill inside the bell jar!

Between wisdom and a good shield, always prefer the wisdom, because no shield can protect us better than wisdom!

Bewilderment is often the child of the ignorance! If you are bewildered to some things, it means that you are not yet a wise man!

Bridge shortens the roads; wisdom does the same!