Quotes About Insight

Demek insanlar? gerçek ve do?ru biçimde yorumlamak için onlar?n ölmelerini beklemek gerekiyordu.

Bugünlerde din kitaplar? okuyorum. Karl Marx, kitap raflar?ndan parma??n? sall?yor bana.

?nsanlar, yaln?zca kitaplarda ?a??r?rlar. Romanc?lar ?a??rt?r onlar?

Read every day and learn from what you read.

every time I understand a little more, I wonder why it's taken me so long—why there was ever a time when I didn't understand a thing so obvious and real and true.

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Even people who can't read are impressed by books.

The questions little children ask drive you insane because they never stop. But they also make you think.

Sometimes naming a thing—giving it a name or discovering its name—helps one to begin to understand it. Knowing the name of a thing and knowing what that thing is for gives me even more of a handle on it.

An occasional lucky guess as to what makes a wife tick is the best a man can hope for, Even then, no sooner has he learned how to cope with the tick than she tocks.

The Buddhist teachings move along a graduated path: first the stages of calm abiding and then the stages of deep insight. Through such gradual practices, lamas of the past gave birth to realization in their mental continuum and discovered primordial wisdom. All the qualities that the great masters found, we can attain as well. It all depends on our own efforts, our diligence, our deeper knowing, and our correct motivation. – 17th Karmapa

The frog in the well can't communicate with the ocean creatures, as it knows the depth of the sky. It's because the frog lived inside a cramped and small space, so he knows better than anyone, how precious freedom is.

Those who cannot feel the littleness of great things in themselves are apt to overlook the greatness of little things in others.

To know is sometimes good, but to have the wisdom to accept what you cannot know is better.

A wise man sleeps with his eyes and keeps his ears awake.

The true goal of human activity was the creation of a world-wide community of awakened and intelligently creative persons, related by mutual insight and respect, and by the common task of fulfilling the potentiality of the human spirit on earth.

Science now held a position of unique honour among the First Men. This was not so much because it was in this field that the race long ago during its high noon had thought most rigorously, nor because it was through science that men had gained some insight into the nature of the physical world, but rather because the application of scientific principles had revolutionized their material circumstances.

For in a declining civilization it is often the old who see furthest and see with youngest eyes.

Bvalltu, for such approximately was the philosopher's name, the "11" being pronounced more or less as in 27 Welsh, Bvalltu effected a "cure" by merely inviting

For conduct which to clearer minds seems merely sane, was in those days to be performed only by rare vision and self-mastery.

God in His infinite wisdom Did not make me very wise— So when my actions are stupid They hardly take God by surprise

That is why fiction existed, as a way to look at the world without being broken by it.

Perhaps it's only those who don't know us at all who are able to see us most clearly.

It was like pointillism: Stand too close, and it makes no sense. Step far enough back, and you can see it. Maybe.