Quotes About Insight

We should know what is true before we break our rage.

Man must suffer to be wise. Head-winds heavy with past iol Stray his course and cooud his heart; Sorrow takes the blind soul's part-- Man grows wise against his will. For powers who rule from thrones above By ruthlessness commend their love.

The sleeping brain has eyes that give us light; we can never see our destiny by day.

Justice inclines her scales so that wisdom comes at the price of suffering

It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer.

You have learned the lesson by experience.

Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.

There are many statues of men slaying lions, but if only the lions were sculptors there might be quite a different set of statues.

The job of the writer is to change the way the reader sees the world.

Do not malign the words of a sage even if they seem trivial, for they contain the loftiest wisdom.

I can't tell you exactly what I'm looking for, but I'll know it when it happens. I want to be breathless and weak, crumpled by the entrance of another person inside my soul. I want to be violated by insight.

If we see everything as uncertain, then their I value fades away.

Only when the mind sees for itself, can it uproot and relinquish attachment.

Someone commented: I can observe desire and aversion in my mind, but it's hard to observe delusion. Ajahn Chah replied: You're riding on a horse and asking where the horse is?

Never too late to learn some embarrassingly basic, stupidly obvious things about oneself.

One kind of good book should leave you asking: how did the author know that about me?

There may be significant things to learn about people by looking at what annoys them most.

The best cure for one's bad tendencies is to see them in action in another person.

A danger of travel is that we see things at the wrong time, before we have had a chance to build up the necessary receptivity and when new information is therefore as useless and fugitive as necklace beads without a connecting chain.

The mind does most of its best thinking when we aren't there. The answers are there in the morning.

Maturity: knowing where you're crazy, trying to warn others of the fact and striving to keep yourself under control.

We are sensitized by the books we read. And the more books we read, and the deeper their lessons sink into us, the more pairs of glasses we have. And those glasses enable us to see things we would have otherwise missed.

Intuition is unconscious accumulated experience informing judgement in real time.

The problem with clichés is not that they contain false ideas, but rather that they are superficial articulations of very good ones.