Quotes About Insight

You can't discuss the ocean with a well frog - he's limited by the space he lives in. You can't discuss ice with a summer insect - he's bound to a single season.

Not to understand is profound; to understand is shallow. Not to understand is to be on the inside; to understand is to be on the outside.

Understanding that rests in what it does not understand is the finest.

We can't expect a blind man to appreciate beautiful patterns or a deaf man to listen to bells and drums. And blindness and deafness are not confined to the body alone - the understanding has them, too.

In the midst of darkness, he alone sees the dawn; in the midst of the soundless, he alone hears harmony.

Men all pay homage to what understanding understands, but no one understands enough to rely upon what understanding does not understand and thereby come to understand.

I'm going to try speaking some reckless words, and I want you to listen recklessly.

The Book of Chuang Tzu is like a travelogue. As such, it meanders between continents, pauses to discuss diet, gives exchange rates, breaks off to speculate, offers a bus timetable, tells an amusing incident, quotes from poetry, relates a story, cites scripture. To try and make it read like a novel or a philosophical handbook is simply to ask it, this travelogue of life, to do something it was never designed to do. And always listen out for the mocking laughter of Chuang Tzu.

Therefore understanding that rests in what it does not understand is the finest.

Et kysy sokean mielipidettä kauniista maalauksesta etkä kutsu kuuroa kuuntelemaan musiikkia. Eivätkä sokeus ja kuurous ole vain fyysisiä vikoja. On olemassa myös mielen sokeutta ja mielen kuuroutta, ja sinun sanasi osoittavat, että sinä kärsit niistä.

The fish trap exists because of the fish; once you've gotten the fish, you can forget the trap. The rabbit snare exists because of the rabbit; once you've gotten the rabbit, you can forget the snare. Words exist because of meaning; once you've gotten the meaning, you can forget the words. Where can I find a man who has forgotten words so I can have a word with him?

Little understanding cannot come up to great understanding; the short-lived cannot come up to the long-lived.

Everyone knows how useful usefulness is, but no one (4:20) seems to know how useful uselessness is.

The wise man before the fight, while the ignorant fight to win.

The wise man win before the fight, while the ignorant fight to win.

Some of us learn from other people's mistakes and the rest of us have to be other people.

But in the spiritual world, degrees and vast learning don't matter. They don't necessarily prevent insight, but they can easily get in the way. God values a humble heart, and He delights to teach those who will say to Him, "Lord, I don't get it. Will You help me?

an in-depth look reveals considerably more than a casual glance

Problems—God's method of revealing himself to anyone who is interested.

You can't hit a target you cannot see, and you cannot see a target you do not have.

there's a rainbow in the sky, all the time, don't be blind

Knowledge is knowing a basket, wisdom is not putting water into it.

The answers aren't important really... What's important is- knowing all the questions.

Don't let the view gives you a wrong vision