Quotes About Insight

As soon as I stepped out of my mother's womb...I realized that I had made a mistake

And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit

I've always thought that a big laugh is a really loud noise from the soul saying "Ain't that the truth

To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.

In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.

He whose wisdom cannot help him, gets no good from being wise.

I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Thinking is a momentary dismissal of irrelevancies.

I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.

Remember that you win over panic by not resisting. Be patient and you will eventually get a spontaneous insight. It might sound like this: "Hey! Four out of the last twelve times when I said, 'I can handle this; I want this,' and really meant it, my anxiety just faded away. Another five times I stayed anxious, but I handled it fine. It didn't leave, and I didn't freak out. Maybe it really is all about how I respond. Cool.

Doubt begets understanding, and understanding begets compassion. Verily, it is conviction that kills.

To piss across water is to piss across your reflection

Real love isn't blind, it sees everything and has an endless capacity for forgiving.

You, Nazhuret, once of Sordaling, are the lens of the world: the lens through which the world may become aware of itself. The world, on the other hand, is the only lens in which you can see yourself. It is both lenses together that make vision.

One must know how to disregard the vehicle of the idea in order to consider its motivation alone.

There's this thing that I like to call the RC Sproul principle of hermenutics. When you're reading the bible and you come across someone doing something really stupid, don't say to yourself "I'm glad I'm not him". Ask yourself "How am I that stupid?

T]he more man accepts his limitations, the better is he enabled to know things truly.

Sometimes I really hate being right.

I believe one has to escape oneself to discover oneself.

Most of the books published these days consist of a series of whines followed by an epiphany.

I read books—read, read, one can learn everything from books.

If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out.

The traveler has to knock at every alien door to come to his own, and one has to wander through all the outer worlds to reach the innermost shrine at the end.