Quotes About Insight

My father used to say that knowledge is knowing tomatoes are fruits, and wisdom is not adding tomatoes to a fruit salad.

Is this what you're trying to tell me?" "Is this the point you're making to me today?" "Is this what you want me to get from this conversation?" "Is this what you want me to do after we're done talking?" "Is this how I need to respond?" "Is there anything else I need to know about this?

Even strength must bow to wisdom sometimes.

Ringo: 'I had no schooling before I joined The Beatles and no schooling after The Beatles. Life is a great education.

Books are good.

Women invented misery, but we don't understand it.

Education is not just about acquiring knowledge and skills but about being initiated into a certain sensibility.

every reader is, while he is reading, the reader of his own self. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument which he offers to the reader to enable him to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have perceived himself. And the recognition by the reader in his own self of what the book says is the proof of its veracity.

explained what he'd found.

Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment.

Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.

Men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry. Rita Rudner

If you knew what I knew, seen what I've seen, you wouldn't be so quick to pull the plow.

A wise man listens to gain knowledge and not to debate.

Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.

All the reading she had done had given her a view of life that they had never seen.

Knowing without seeing is at the heart of chemistry.

Maybe ignorance is bliss, because you can work out things about people and then wish you hadn't.

Keep having conversations until you stop hearing new stuff.

All traditions of Buddhism stress the importance of first practicing calm abiding meditation (shamatha) and then insight meditation (vipassana).

I'm much better at bringing out the best in others than in myself. That's just the kind of person I am. I'm the scratchy stuff on the side of the matchbox.

I read a few of those books on how to write a screenplay, but, just like I told you with the school thing, once again, most of those books are written by someone who's never written a good script. You look at the writer's credits and they've written one episode of The Golden Girls or something. People who write good scripts, write scripts. They don't write books about writing scripts.

Information, contemplated over time, is knowledge.

He not only had the gift of "reading" men and women, of seeing into their hearts, he also had the gift of putting himself in their place, of not just seeing what they felt but of feeling what they felt, almost as if what had happened to them had happened to him, too.