Quotes About Insight

This might be good, I thought as I studied the crowd. There were several definitely intelligen?t guys present, not strobe-lig?ht intellects but people who could make you uncomforta?ble in a debate if you got too much beyond what you absolutely had the facts on.

You learn far more from negative leadership than from positive leadership. Because you learn how not to do it. And, therefore, you learn how to do it.

the secret of wisdom is detachment without withdrawal.

I think kids slowly begin to realize that what they're learning relates to other things they know. Then learning starts to get more and more exciting.

You must never feel badly about making mistakes ... as long as you take the trouble to learn from them. For you often learn more by being wrong for the right reasons than you do by being right for the wrong reasons.

Everybody is so terribly sensitive about the things they know best.

If you want sense, you'll have to make it yourself.

How can a person have a sense of something if he does not have the germ of it within himself. What I am to understand must develop organically within me--and what I seem to learn is only nourishment--stimulation of the organism.

To philosophize means to make vivid.

The highest task of education is—to take command of one's transcendental self—to be at once the I of its I. It is all the less to be wondered at that we lack complete insight and understanding for others. Without perfect self-understanding one will never learn to truly understand others.

Der wahre Leser muss der erweiterte Autor sein.

Orice om care gânde?te va g?si întotdeauna adev?rul - indiferent unde va voi s? se duc? ?i cum va voi s? mearg?.

Though it seemed trivial, now, to describe a place as if what is was, was what I could see of it.

Debe rebasarse necesariamente la corteza para descubrir, tras la apariencia, la verdadera esencia de las cosas. El envoltorio, en definitiva, no cuenta. Un precepto que vale para juzgar no sólo las palabras, sino también las cosas y los hombres.

He or she that ignored wisdom and knowledge, ignored his or her deliverances

Equanimity is a perfect, unshakable balance of mind, rooted in insight. But in its perfection and unshakable nature equanimity is not dull, heartless and frigid. Its perfection is not due to an emotional "emptiness", but to a "fullness" of understanding, to its being complete in itself. Its unshakable nature is not the immovability of a dead, cold stone, but the manifestation of the highest strength.

Paradox of Information wherein we can know too many things without knowing what those "things" are.

There are stories in everything. I've got some of my best yarns from park benches, lampposts, and newspaper stands.

But in a last word to the wise of these days let it be said that of all who give gifts these two were the wisest. Of all who give and receive gifts, such as they are wisest. Everywhere they are wisest. They are the magi.

The pursuit of truth, not of facts, is the business of fiction.

Aptal, o kadar?n? biz de anlad?k.

Neden baz? insanlar, baz? ?eyleri hiç bilmiyorlar? Duysalar, dinleseler, hatta kar??lar?nda görseler bile bilmiyorlar.

Bir insan? gerçekten seyretmek isteyen, onun oyununa gerçekten kat?lan biri, o insan?n ancak kafas?nda ya?ayabilir.

Felsefeciler böyle günlük konularla u?ra?salard? ne iyi olurdu, diye dü?ündü. 'Bakkal R?za'ya Gitmek Meselesi' üzerine bir deneme yazsalard? mesela. Bu konudaki bütün ayr?nt?lar? ve mümkün olan bütün çözüm yollar?n? bana gösterselerdi, belki o zaman daha yüksek meselelere atlamam sa?lan?rd?.