Quotes About Insight

Imagination is the wonder of the wise.

When you use your imagination, it is a bit like putting on night-vision goggles to see forms in the shadows of your head, heart, and spirit.

Vision is the culmination of thought.

You live your life without realizing these things until you take yourself away from the usual stuff, even for a brief moment…only then do you see your life in a different perspective.

You do not know a situation until you experience .

Mankind is like ocean, we only see the things which comes up! If we wanna know someone better we need a deeper dive.

Not everything that is seen is visible.

We learn from every experience to be wise.

It comes true because we're wise, dear.

When things feel murky and unsure, fine tuning our hearing so as to distinguish the voice of our Innermost Self brings clarity.

Why read? Because we are given more than we are.

Self-discipline is the beginning of wisdom, not its end. When we have discovered the purpose for which self-discipline exists, we will, if we are sane, hardly recall anything about self-discipline because it has enabled us to become free to see and do so much else.

I believe every religion captures a piece of the truth.

Spirit is in all things, and there are lessons to be learned in all forms of existence.

Partners really assist us in finding within ourselves the truth that is there but maybe we haven't taken the time to acknowledge or express.

You never truly know someone until you've stood in their shoes and walked around in them.

Even when the angel asks him specifically, "Do you not know what these are?" Zechariah answers with humility, "No, my lord." Had Zechariah not responded with humility and openness, he probably would not have gained much from the whole experience. People who think they know it all already cut themselves off from learning anything new.

No matter what I see or how many times I think I may have seen it before, I always ask, "What is this, Lord?" I am confident that the same God who gives me the revelation can also interpret it for me.

Well-wrought poems and works of imaginative literature can do for us what stone-cold prose can never do. They can help us grasp the full dimension of ways of life other than our own.

How can you have an opinion, indeed a strong opinion, about something you haven't even read?

There is no dishonor in wisdom.

The colored people of this country know and understand the white people better than the white people know and understand them.

I believe it to be a fact that the colored people of this country know and understand the white people better than the white people know and understand them.

It is a difficult thing for a white man to learn what a colored man really thinks; because, generally, with the latter an additional and different light must be brought to bear on what he thinks; and his thoughts are often influenced by considerations so delicate and subtle that it would be impossible for him to confess or explain them to one of the opposite race.