Quotes About Insight

The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live.

A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.

Oliver Wendell Holmes (Jr.)

Upon this point a page of history is worth a volume of logic.

Life, not the parson, teaches conduct.

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.

An old author is constantly rediscovering himself in the more or less fossilized productions of his early years.

A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter.

A page of history is worth a pound of logic.

To know is not less than to feel.

was probably significant that he was physically short-sighted. He could not recognise people until almost upon them. Their faces were like so many buns. Good-natured buns, he would have said, but Harriet did not agree. She saw them in detail and did not like them any the better for it.

Un buon libro lascia al lettore l'impressione di leggere qualcosa della propria esperienza personale. Quando la letteratura è al suo apice ci sembra che d'improvviso ricordiamo qualcosa d'importante che sapevamo ma abbiamo scordato.

The act of correctly seeing this world from this state of concentration (jyo) and the world of samadhi is called "wisdom." In other words, wisdom is the act of perceiving things of this world as they truly are.

Further, to have concentration without wisdom is to idly come to a standstill in an empty world.

Wisdom originates in samadhi is what this sutra teaches us.

Just as in the phrase jyo-e enmyo (full and clear perception in the wisdom of concentration), jyo (concentration) necessarily gives birth to e (wisdom) and e (wisdom) must be based on jyo (concentration).

Otherwise, no matter how clear our perception, it is nothing but worldly knowledge and discriminating knowledge and can never be called wisdom.

As we become advanced in meditation, sometimes phenomena appear during our meditation. Some of them are favorable while others are not. As a whole, they have always been called makyo (disturbing conditions). For

I trust that everything happens for a reason, even if we are not wise enough to see it.

Dogs do speak, but only to those who know how to listen.

Try to discover who I am from my choice of words and colors, as attentive people like yourselves might examine footprints to catch a thief.

They were more a new set of ways of looking at the universe, supported by the math, than a set of complex mathematical formulas.

Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.

A good businessman must have nose for business the same way a journalist has nose for news. In places where people see a lot of obstacles, I see a lot of opportunities. A good businessman sees where others don't see.