Quotes About Insight

No problem can be solved at the level of consciousness in which it was conceived.

Look deep, deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better. - Albert Einstein | Nature Quotes

REBT, then, helps you not only to understand what you "are" but to change what you harmfully think, feel, and do. It accepts your desires, wishes, preferences, goals, and values, then tries to help you achieve them. But REBT shows you how to separate your preferences from your insistences—and thus keep from sabotaging your own goals. It gives you insight into what you are now doing rather than into what you (and your damned parents!) have done.

insight will help you very little.

Insight is another name for awareness.

Man's real genius and knowledge remains preserved in books

Unpacking books is a revelatory activity.

Darkness promotes speech.

In any of my pages in any of my books may life a perfect account of my secret experience of the world.

And sometimes, when the stars are kind, we read with an intake of breath, with a shudder, as if someone or something had 'walked over our grave,' as if a memory had suddenly been rescued from a place deep within us - the recognition of something we never knew was there, or of something we vaguely felt as a flicker or a shadow, whose ghostly form rises and passes back into us before we can see what it is, leaving us older and wiser.

Books have long been instruments of the divinatory arts.

To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries.

Every book can be, for the right reader, an oracle, responding on occasion even to questions unasked..

We read to understand, or to begin to understand

You don't immediately understand something like that, even when it's explained to you clearly. You don't understand it, because you don't know how to understand it. You lack that space in your mind that would let you take it in. You are incapable of believing in the possibility of what they are telling you, because nothing of the sort has ever happened to you before.

The course of every intellectual, if he pursues his journey long and unflinchingly enough, ends in the obvious, from which the non-intellectuals have never stirred.

To see ourselves as others see us is a most salutary gift. Hardly less important is the capacity to see others as they see themselves.

It's a very salutary thing to realize that the rather dull universe in which most of us spend most of our time is not the only universe there is. I think it's healthy that people should have this experience.

For every traveller who has any taste of his own, the only useful guidebook will be the one which he himself has written.

Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.

You've got to be hurt and upset; otherwise you can't think of the really good, penetrating, X-rayish phrases.

The essay is a literary device for saying almost everything about almost anything.

The most nearly free men have always been those who combined virtue with insight.

To see ourselves as others see us is a most salutary gift.