Quotes About Insight

Just think what we could be when we are awakened to the truth!

Your growth in grace is not measured by the fact that you haven't turned back, but that you have an insight and understanding into where you are spiritually. Have you heard God say, "Come up higher," not audibly on the outer level, but to the innermost part of your character?

The author who benefits you most is not the one who tells you something you did not know before, but the one who gives expression to the truth that has been dumbly struggling in you for utterance.

The golden rule for understanding spiritually is not intellect, but obedience. If a man wants scientific knowledge, intellectual curiosity is his guide; but if he wants insight into what Jesus Christ teaches, he can only get it by obedience.

3 de maio Aprendi com meu filho de dez anos Que a poesia é a descoberta Das coisas que eu nunca vi

Philosophie, die Liebe zur Wahrheit, ist im tiefsten Grunde die Abwehr des Unbegreiflichen.

was ihm auffällt macht er zu worten dazwischen aber ist mangel.

Chasseguet-Smirgel and Grunberger (1986) have described how psychoanalytic thinking and understanding can be transformed into an ideology or political program containing messianic and/or paranoid characteristics that are in dramatic contrast to the very nature of psychoanalytic insight.

All genius is a conquering of chaos and mystery.

In order to depict a man one must understand him, and to understand him one must be like him; in order to portray his psychological activities one must be able to reproduce them in oneself. To understand a man one must have his nature in oneself.

To understand a man is really to be that man.

Experience is an excellent spyglass; but it has this drawback, that Prejudice very often clouds the lens.

I have know a thousand scamps; but I never met one who considered himself so. Self-knowledge isn't so common.

We can learn even from our enemies.

Those things that nature denied to human sight, she revealed to the eyes of the soul.

The rest who does not know?

Fas est ab hoste doceri. One should learn even from one's enemies.

The obvious is the hardest thing of all to point out to anyone who has genuinely lost sight of it.

There is no surer or more illuminating way of reading a man's character, and perhaps a little of his past history, than by observing the contexts in which he prefers to use certain words.

Plato had to make the tremendous effort (it is one of the most exhausting which man is called on to exert) of turning a vague feeling into a clear thought.

Meditation is the soul's perspective glass.

I think that anyone who eats meat should visit a slaughterhouse at least once in their life, just to see what goes on. It's a bloody, filthy, putrid f**king business.

Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.

He [his uncle, Pliny the Elder] used to say that there was no book so bad that it was not useful at some point. Pliny the Younger, Epistula III.5.10