Quotes About Insight

To become a religious founder, you must first reach the land of doubt and atheism.

To find oneself, one must stop seeking knowledge and simple memorization. It is about self-training, practice and attaining pure wisdom. Even little wisdom means so much in this area.

Travelling is a business person's best friend.

We keep our eyes out of the sun, not because we are weak; but because we want to apply reason over madness.

We need to know something deep inside before we realise it. Otherwise, we cannot profit from anything by ignoring its existence.

We ought to understand the personalities and motives of an individual before we come to judge him.

You can see the beauty in things only after learning the meaning of the word 'beautiful'.

You cannot define anything that is beyond your sight and imagination.

You have to go beyond ordinary people in order to understand and apply the concept of common sense.

You have to learn the meaning of truth if you are to find it in life.

Los ojos que miran son muy comunes, pero los ojos que ven son muy raros".

Erwachsene! Was für ein trauriger Haufen. Verstehen nichts. Kein Wunder, dass es auf der Welt die ganze Zeit drunter und drüber geht.

Listen with your eyes because here you cannot decipher what is said out of the effort of mouths.

Yes, I thought, now I see the earth as it really is; never again will I see things as I saw them yesterday or the day before.

There is no wisdom without love.

We have to grow into Scripture, like a young boy inheriting his older brother's clothes and flopping around in them, but he gradually builds out and grows up. Perhaps it's a measure of our maturity when parts of Scripture that we found odd or even repellent suddenly come up in a new light. Our sense is overtaken by a sense of the whole thing, wide, multicolored, and unspeakably powerful.

The radical insight of St. Paul into what it means to be human, and what it means to have the overwhelming love of God take hold of you, corresponds in quite an obvious way to what most people know about what makes someone more or less livable-with. And livable-with-ness, though of course it contains a large subjective element, is not a bad rule of thumb for what it might mean to be truly human.

No, insists Paul, once you learn the meaning of the gospel, you have to see everything inside out.

17. Error does not develop In one who is in error. Error does not develop In one who is not in error. 18. Error does not develop In one in whom error is arising. In whom does error develop? Examine this on your own!

To know and no to do is not to know.

if an astronomer calculates from the sky he will ascertain the paths of the moon and the stars; but in his house the womenfolk are at variance, and he does not perceive their various misconduct.

There are no heroes in most of my stories. I look at our society with a critical eye and find nothing extraordinary in the people I see.

You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.

What can I say? I prefer to die well informed.