Quotes About Insight

Live your life as if there are no miracles and everything is a miracle. – Albert Einstein

In fact, one big lesson from Buddhism is to be suspicious of the intuition that your ordinary way of perceiving the world brings you the truth about it.

You have to know how to look even if you don't know what you're looking for.

To know all is to despise all.

Wisdom may be rented...on the experience of other people, but we buy it at an inordinate price before we make it our own forever.

Despite these afternoon misgivings and self-reproaches I clung to my notion, ill-defined though it was, that a serious study of human knowledge, or theory, or belief, if undertaken with a critical but not a cruel mind, would in the end yield some secret, some valuable permanent insight, into the nature of life and the true end of man.

His reply had that clarity, objectivity and reasonableness which is possible only to advisers who have completely missed the point.

If Heloise had been more clear-headed she'd have seen that Abelard was a frightful nerd in human relationships.

Yes, I am letting my own experience color my answer, which is what experience is for....

Oh, why does compassion weaken us?' It doesn't, really ... Somewhere where it all balances out - don't the philosophers have a name for it, the perfect place, the place where the answers live? - if we could go there, you could see it doesn't. It only looks, a little bit, like it does, from here, like an ant at the foot of an oak tree. He doesn't have a clue that it's a tree; it's the beginning of the wall round the world, to him.

We kings do develop a certain ability to recognize objects under our noses.

Little John, watching her standing next to her brother, half-glowering in the old Cecil manner and half-comforted by Robin's words, saw for a moment what it had been like for her as Will's litter sister. Some of what she was good at, and some of what she was bad at, as his pupil, came clear to him in that moment; and something else came clear to him too, but he set it aside so quickly that he allowed himself not to recognize it for what it was.

One of the things she'd learnt on her own, ragged, bemused, zigzag way was that the best sources of useful information were often in strange places...

It is that I cannot see what I am doing or why, and it is unsettling always to live only in the moment as it passes. Oh, I know one never sees ahead or behind. But I see even less. It is like being blindfolded when everyone else in the room is not. No one can see outside the room – but everyone else can see the room. I would like to take my blindfold off.

You did not disturb me, said the pegasus. I disturbed myself, that I might speak to you.

HIs riders knew most of this, even if they did not see it with the dire clarity Corlath was forced to....

Your Chalice, Master, sees all things clearly, which is both her strength and her weakness.

Books simply help you to see what is already within your self. That's what enlightenment is all about.

Sre?a pride z dobro presojo, dobra presoja pride z izkušnjami in izkušnje pridejo s slabo presojo.

I guess most of what we understand about people is just the surface stuff

Happiness comes through good judgment, good judgment comes through experience, and experience comes through bad judgment.' But

If you eat three times a day you'll be fed. But if you read three times a day you'll be wise.

But your past is a place to be learned from, not a home to be lived in.

answer is simple. With one eye fixed on the destination, there is only one left to guide you along the journey.