Quotes About Insight

I knew it. I just knew it." We had been robbed after all.

There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of vital experience.

Reason's a thing we dimly see in sleep.

If you cannot find the truth where you are, Where do you expect to find it? —Master Dogen

appearance.

People need to know what they need to know when they need to know it.

If you pay attention to the world, it's an amazing place. If you don't, it's whatever you think it is.

Have you ever felt that there was something going on in life that not everyone was aware of?

He wanted to see the world through her eyes, where simple things like oak paneling and stone bridges were marvels.

Amazing what more we can see looking back. But God didn't give us eyes in the back of our heads. Our eyes, like our feet, face forward, toward the future.

As the bee knows how to find honey in flowers, the gift of wisdom draws lessons of divine goodness from everything.

It is the purification of the intellect which prepares for contemplation.

The pain of ignorance can end. The pain of knowledge is forever

Reginald Hill

I came to realize that my path to knowledge would not lead me to libraries, professors, universities, and studies. My path to knowledge was through living life and experiencing reality. I could learn plenty secondhand, but nothing was ever to surpass the experiences I had in the wilderness. All my knowledge of social, scentific, and religious issues has been acquired through personal experience.

The morality of the church is anachronistic. Will it ever develop a moral insight and courage sufficient to cope with the real problems of modern society? If it does it will require generations of effort and not a few martyrdoms. We ministers maintain our pride and self-respect and our sense of importance only through a vast and inclusive ignorance. If we knew the world in which we live a little better we would perish in shame or be overcome by a sense of futility.

Power," said Henry Adams, "is poison"; and it is a poison which blinds the eyes of moral insight and lames the will of moral purpose. The

I wonder if anyone who needs a snappy song service can really appreciate the meaning of the cross.

Try to put well into practice what you already know. In so doing, you will, in good time, discover the hidden things you now inquire about.

Practice what you know, and it will help to make clear what now you do not know.

Simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.

Man can no more see the world than a fish can see the river bank.

Arrêtez-vous ! Arrachez-vous au vertige, réfléchissez !

Ils venaient de prendre conscience de l'immensité de leur ignorance.