Quotes About Insight

Mma Ramotswe stepped forward and put an arm around Patience's shoulder. "Mma, " she said, "I see you." It was the oldest and simplest of African greetings: I see you. It implied so much more than it said, though, because it meant that Mma Ramotswe saw not only the person standing before her, but all that lay behind her – who she was, where she came from, how she felt.

He had been looking in quite the wrong place-a place of darkness-when he should have been looking in a place of light.

That was the problem with human failings – they were often more visible to others than to those whom they afflicted.

His particular insight was that we need to be at home; all his concerns with division within ourselves, with the tragic flaws in our nature, with the thwarting of love—all these point to the need that he felt we had within us to locate ourselves in a place we could live in with love, with people with whom we could share.

He who has lived and thought can never Help in his soul despising men, He who has felt will be forever Haunted by days he can't regain. For him there are no more enchantments, Him does the serpent of remembrance, Him does repentance always gnaw. All this will frequently afford A great delight to conversations.

Los proverbios morales son asombrosamente útiles en los casos en que, por mucho que lo intentemos, no se nos ocurre nada para justificarnos.

Nada interessava ou comovia: Para tudo olhava e nada via.

Ordinary persons, he said, smiling, found no differences between men. The artist found them all.

A scrutiny so minute as to bring an object under an untrue angle of vision, is a poorer guide to a man's judgment than a sweeping glance which sees things in their true proportion.

although he knew very little about American history, or pop culture, he'd fundamentally understood the place, cut to its original wound. "A bit racialist, aren't they?" he'd observed.

Before one is afraid, one sees clearly; while one is afraid, one sees double; and after being afraid, one sees dimly.

Pero soy de los que creen que en las cosas pequeñas está todo. El niño es pequeño, y contiene al hombre; el cerebro es estrecho, y alberga el pensamiento; el ojo es solo un punto, y abarca leguas.

What provokes readers to experience their own profound sense of self?

What do we mean when we say "meaning"? For our purposes it's not one thing, a single gem of wisdom. It's the stream of insight, understanding, realization, and acceptance that one continually gains from personal experience, and that adds up to the subjective reality called me. The me in meaning is aimed primarily at seeing the significance of our experiences not for others, but for ourselves. We are philosophers of I. Take

in the kingdom of the blind," as the French proverb has it, "the one-eyed man is king";

I always thought the Bible was more of a salad thing, you know, but it isn't. It's a chocolate thing.

In the poetry of attention, poems are not problems.

each of the best minds ends by making fairy tales

Keep your sense of humor. As General Joe Stillwell said, "The higher a monkey climbs, the more you see of his behind.

The most valuable sense of humor is the kind that enables a person to see instantly what it isn't safe to laugh at

La mente de Dios y la Palabra de Dios son mucho más amplias que nuestras propias perspectivas y Él nos llevará a través de la Biblia para orar con entendimiento por cosas que están mucho más allá de las mismas cosas de siempre.

The reason we come away so cold from reading the word is because we do not warm ourselves at the fire of meditation.

Books, after all, do not have the same impact whenever we read them.

She had an understanding about people, and compassion—she didn't talk about it, but you heard how she spoke and saw how she behaved.