Quotes About Insight

I've found out why people laugh. They laugh because it hurts so much . . . because it's the only thing that'll make it stop hurting." Jill

Most people can't think, most of the remainder won't think, the small fraction who do think mostly can't do it very well. The extremely tiny fraction who think regularly, accurately, creatively, and without self-delusion, in the long run these are the only people who count.

We necessarily sift a great many pebbles, much sand, for each nugget—but the nuggets

That old saw about "To understand all is to forgive all" is a lot of tripe. Some things, the more you understand the more you loathe them. My

Don't 'Father' me! I can tell a hawk from a handsaw. Anybody can, Grandmother Hazel commented. The Hawk class is a purely commercial type while the Hanshaw runabout is a sport job. Come to think about it, boys, a Hanshaw might be better than a Douglas.

A desire not to butt into other people's business is eighty percent of all human wisdom." "You butt into other people's business.

Who can possibly be as deeply inside a story as the person who writes it?

No. 'Grok' is the most important word in the language—and I expect to spend years trying to understand it.

however the trouble with "lessons from history" is that we usually read them best after falling flat on our chins.

heard Prof say, "Manuel, when faced with a problem you do not understand, do any part of it you do understand, then look at it again.

Once we become sensitive to dreams, we discover that every dynamic in a dream is manifesting itself in some way in our practical lives

The beginning of wisdom is a firm grasp of the obvious.

Clement of Alexandria says in the Paedagogus: "Therefore, as it seems, it is the greatest of all disciplines to know oneself; for when a man knows himself, he knows God.

In tribal cultures, shamans or healers often experience an illness that gives them the insight they need to heal themselves and then bring wisdom to their people. We are still operating with the archetype of the wounded healer who has learned to cure himself and find the gold in his experience.

If i can stay with my conflicting impulses long enough, the two opposing forces will teach each other something and produce an insight that serves them both. This is not a compromise but a depth of understanding that puts my life in perspective and allows me to know with certainty what I should do. That certainty is one of the most precious qualities known to human kind.

I grok people. I am people so now I can say it in people talk. I've found out why people laugh. They laugh because it hurts so much because it's the only thing that'll make it stop hurting

help conquer the IQ shortage worry less and think more

If one can only see things according to one's own belief system, one is destined to become virtually deaf, dumb, and blind.

Here's to the good nuns for telling me what books NOT to read!

Of course, it is fairly easy to see that other people's minds operate this way; it is comparatively much harder to become aware that one's own mind is working that way also.

I'm sorry There are some jokes you cannot understand until you have been a fool many, many years and thought yourself finally cured and then found out that you had just become a different kind of fool.

Van Gogh could see 28 shades of black. Why?

The greatest progress that the human race has made lies in learning how to make correct inferences. —Nietzsche, Human, AU-Too-Human

This book is a mirror. When a monkey looks in, no philosopher looks out.—Lichtenstein. Does that refer to one book only, or to all books?