Quotes About Insight

She was strangely unaware that she could look and see freshly for herself, as she wrote, without primary regard for what had been said before.

most people stand in sight of the spiritual mountains all their lives and never enter them, being content to listen to others who have been there and thus avoid the hardships.

Once they got into the idea of seeing directly for themselves they also saw there was no limit to the amount they could say. It was a confidence building assignment too, because what they wrote, even though seemingly trivial, was nevertheless their own thing, not a mimicking of someone else's.

You look at where you're going and where you are and it never makes sense, but then you look back at where you've been and a pattern seems to emerge. And if you project forward from that pattern, then sometimes you can come up with something. "All

Cerchi di capire dove stai andando e dove sei, e ti sembra che la tua vita non abbia senso. Ma quando dài uno sguardo indietro si delineano delle costanti, e se ti proietti in avanti partendo da quelle, a volte ti capita di scoprire qualcosa.

What has become an urgent necessity is a way of looking at the world that does violence to neither of these two kinds of understanding and unites them into one.

No comprendí entonces lo estúpidas que son las suposiciones apresuradas.

Some things you miss because they're so tiny you overlook them. But some things you don't see because they're so huge. We were both looking at the same thing, seeing the same thing, talking about the same thing, thinking about the same thing, except he was looking, seeing, talking and thinking from a completely different dimension.

You follow these little discrepancies long enough and they sometimes open up into huge revelations.

The truth knocks on the door and you say, "Go away, I'm looking for the truth," and so it goes away.

I add, almost to myself, "You look at where you're going and where you are and it never makes sense, but then you look back at where you've been and a pattern seems to emerge. And if you project forward from that pattern, then sometimes you can come up with something.

You look at where you're going and where you are and it never makes sense, but then you look back at where you've been and a pattern seems to emerge. And if you project forward from that pattern, then sometimes you can come up with something.

I had been seeing that shim in a kind of intellectual, rational, cerebral way in which the scientific properties of the metal were all that counted. John was going at it immediately and intuitively, grooving on it. I was going at it in terms of underlying form. He was going at it in terms of immediate appearance. I was seeing what the shim meant. He was seeing what the shim was.

The truth knocks on the door and you say, "Go away, I'm looking for the truth," and so it goes away. Puzzling.

Squareness may be succinctly and yet thoroughly defined as an inability to see quality before it's been intellectually defined

Was Quality something that you "just see" or might it be something more subtle than that, so that you wouldn't see it at all immediately, but only after a long period of time?

The solutions all are simple—after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.

Sometimes just the act of writing down the problems straightens out your head as to what they really are. The

If you pay lots of attention to where boundaries are, you pay less attention to complete pictures.

Taking the time to ask your prospect the correct questions and carefully listen to the answers shows respect for them, and gives you a clearer idea of what they want.

We sometimes have a flash of understanding that amounts to the insight of genius, and yet it slowly withers, even in our hands - like a flower. The form remains, but the colours and the fragrance are gone.

Ich weiß jetzt nichts von Rätseln. Alles geschieht: Das ist die ganze Weisheit.

Eine große Erkenntnis vollzieht sich nur zur Hälfte im Lichtkreise des Gehirns, zur anderen Hälfte in dem dunklen Boden des Innersten, und sie ist vor allem ein Seelenzustand, auf dessen äußerster Spitze der Gedanke nur wie eine Blüte sitzt.

Gelegentlich sind wir alle dumm; wir müssen gelegentlich auch blind oder halbblind handeln oder die Weilt stünde still...