Quotes About Insight

The writer] has to be the kind of man who turns the world upside down and says, lookit, it looks different, doesn't it?

If you never ask yourself any questions about the meaning of a passage, you cannot expect the book to give you any insight you don't already possess

The great authors were great readers, and one way to understand them is to read the books they read.

To agree without understanding is inane. To disagree without understanding is impudent.

As Winston Churchill whimsically observed, "Men occasionally stumble across the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.

You must accept the truth from whatever source it comes.

This book fills a much-needed gap.

Your purpose...should always be to know...the whole that was intended to be known.

Accept the truth from whatever source it comes.

You can tell a lot about a person from his taste in art.

Henry James chews more than he bites off.

Strive to see with the inner eye, the heart. It sees the reality not subject to emotional or personal error; it sees the essence. Intuition then is the most important quality to develop.

One hour of contemplation surpasses sixty years of worship.

Jokes? There are no jokes. The truth is the funniest joke of all.

Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise.

A rooster crows only when it sees the light. Put him in the dark and he'll never crow. I have seen the light and I'm crowing.

But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.

I found this book simple but very deep, some chapters on the heavy side but well worth reading for the new comers and also for the veteran in the field of meditation

It is so rare to find someone of true understanding; for the most part they judge purely by their own standards and ignore everyone else. So all they see of me is a façade. There are times when I am forced to sit with them and on such occasions I simply ignore their petty criticisms, not because I am particularly shy but because I consider it pointless. As a result, they now look down upon me as a dullard.

Bir yolcu, yolda her seyi gormez, [...] Yolu her seyde gorur. Her sey bir yoldur cunku. -Moottah

Each time we re-read a book we get more out of it because we put more into it a different person is reading it, and therefore it is a different book.

The fear of poetry is an indication that we are cut off from our own reality.

To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul.

Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life.