Quotes About Insight

I don't have to have faith, I have experience.

It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.

He who thinks he knows, doesn't know. He who knows that he doesn't know, knows.

Wars and temper tantrums are the makeshifts of ignorance; regrets are illuminations come too late.

He who thinks he knows, doesn't know. He who knows that he doesn't know, knows. For in this context, to know is not to know. And not to know is to know.

Privation and suffering alone open the mind to all that is hidden to others. (Igjugarjuk)

You have to learn to recognize your own depths.

Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.

Hay más realidad en una imagen que en una palabra

É descendo até o abismo que recuperamos os tesouros da vida. Onde voce tropeça, ali está seu tesouro.

Joseph Campbell

A félelem az elsÅ' tapasztalat, és ez a tapasztalat azt mondja: én.

Well, you can't know it without something having been sneezed.

You know, when once you've discovered a secret yourself, it always seems as if it must be so obvious to everybody else.

His idea of seeing the world was to see, not countries, but people; and to see them from as many angles as possible.

One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.

Three minutes thought would suffice to find this out but thought is irksome and three minutes is a long time.

But in me he saw at once a weak, yielding will. You can feel it in people at a mere glance—there's no need of words.

Un asno viejo sabe mas que un potro. (An old ass knows more than an old colt.)-A Wrinkle in Time

No humbling of reality to precept.

The poet exposes himself to the risk. All that has been said about poetry, all that he has learned about poetry, is only a partial assurance.

I am grateful for - though I can't keep up with - the flood of articles, theses, and textbooks that mean to share insight concerning the nature of poetry.

Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience.

Knowledge acquired outdoors always seems to have a greater, hardier wisdom than the stuff you find at a desk on a computer.