Quotes About Insight

The art of a people is a true mirror to their minds.

Emotional Channeling Technique #1: Ask Courageous Questions

Knowledge is great; wisdom is even better.

Thus the first important fact is that counselees need meaning, and the second is similar to it: counselees need hope. Every counselor must keep these two facts in mind, especially at the beginning of a sequence of counseling sessions.

deep-set eyes,

Tullius Cicero said: "The eyes are the window to the soul.

Pretty agreeable of me, yes? The ancient Greeks gave a name to this kind of anticipatory concession, agreeing in advance to what the other person is likely to say: prolepsis, meaning

There is no excuse among professional officers for not having a 5000 year old mind.

For the value of history, and therefore of military history, is not in the facts it communicates or even in the principals it illustrates. The value of history is that it can provide fresh insight into the past and hence a better understanding of the present.

Great minds sink alike, right?

It is possible to refine awareness itself so much that the emptiness of things, and the role mental construction plays, becomes a directly apprehended reality.

For heaven's sake, dear, he's a man. Men aren't very good at analyzing themselves, you know.

Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two.

The study of history is the beginning of political wisdom.

I don't know a lot about

After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.

Listen carefully to first criticisms made of your work. Note just what it is about your work that critics don't like - then cultivate it. That's the only part of your work that's individual and worth keeping.

Ask nature questions, and you will get answers.

The rarest things in the world, next to a spirit of discernment, are diamonds and pearls.

The exact contrary of what is generally believed is often the truth.

One mark of a second-rate mind is to be always telling stories.

Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.

Whoever has this Gnosis...takes what is his and restores it to himself. By Gnosis, a man knows 'whence he has come and whither he is going.

Cum reu?e?te adev?rul s? se desprind? din aparen?ele care îl ascund ?i totodat? îl constituie? Izbucne?te, într-o seara, cu brutalitate? Sau î?i croie?te drum încet în mintea oamenilor?