Quotes About Insight

Objective knowledge can be learned through teachers, books, or observation of something outside of ourselves. Gnostic or noetic (an alternative spelling) knowledge is what is revealed to us or intuitively perceived as spiritually true. I think of gnosis as what we "gknow" at a soul level, it's what we know "in our bones.

lo que el mundo actualmente necesita es una inyección de la clase de sabiduría que las mujeres tienen

original topics of research that those who stay cloistered in their ivory towers could never imagine.

knowledge, data processing, and creativity are going to be at the heart of creating value.

No eyes that have seen beauty ever lose their sight.

We do not posses imagination enough to sense what we are missing.

Where would you intellectuals be without us lower grade morons to lead you around? Totally lost, that's where!

Kualitas paling penting yang perlu dimiliki oleh seseorang adalah imajinasi. Imajinasi membuat orang mampu menempatkan diri mereka di tempat orang lain. Imajinasi membuat mereka menjadi orang yang baik dan bisa bersimpati serta penuh pengertian.

the most necessary quality for any person to have is imagination. It makes people able to put themselves in other people's places. It makes them kind and sympathetic and understanding.

It's much more entertaining to live books than to write them.

Be careful not to keep your eyes glued to detail. Stand far enough away to get a perspective of the whole.

The more I study men, the more I realize that they are nothing in the world but boys grown too big to be spankable.

I did not then know that the world is often plainer than people imagine and that the truth, no matter how banal, is always alive and glowing.

L'expérience n'est que le masque dont on affuble son optimisme quand on veut le faire partager à plus jeune que soi.

Cet échange d'inconnu à inconnu se révélait infiniment plus riche que l'habituel commerce entre gens qui savaient déjà tout les uns des autres.

Il était plein d'un sentiment de puissance qui, après tout, était peut-être perceptibles par ces êtres intuitifs que sont les femmes.

Books knew more than you did, as a rule.

A È™ti anumite lucruri pe de rost îÈ›i confer? capacitatea unei înÈ›elegeri superioare.

CunoÈ™tinÈ›ele sunt cele care se adun? în capul nostru f?r? s? ne fie întotdeauna de vreun folos. CunoaÈ™terea e transformarea unor cunoÈ™tinÈ›e într-o experien?? de via??.

History is a better guide than good intentions.

Ordinary professionalism and 20 years' experience can accomplish a lot, but it can't access the hidden places.

What matters in learning is not to be taught, but to wake up.

Let us see but a little at a time and see that little plainly; that is the way to acquire substantial and lasting knowledge.

Sometimes the experience of reading can be corrupted by too many opinions.