Quotes About Insight

Wit has truth in it; wise-cracking is simply calisthenics with words.

Four be the things I am wiser to know:Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.

There's a helluva distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.

Listen to your fears: they have a lot to teach you about yourself.

We all have some screws loose, common sense and intelligence can diminish that

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.

If you start to smell some of the shit, you start smelling all of the shit

I've been to Hell. You've only read about it.

There is no problem so complicated that you can't find a very simple answer to it if you look at it right.

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others…

I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day.

T.S. Elliot: "And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started, and know the place for the first time.

Intuition is just your subconscious putting together subtle clues and coming to a conclusion that your conscious mind hasn't quite reached. Since

it's hidden, even from her." Frey laughed. "We both know that's not true anymore. I wasn't there in person,

Douglas E. Richards

if you allow yourself to rise above a short-term perspective and super-charged rhetoric, the big picture is still looking better than ever before.

Sometimes I think of myself as Frodo in the Lord of The Rings. In my case the ring's power is that of almost inconceivable creativity and intellect. But like Frodo's burden it is easily accessible, right there around my neck at all times, exerting its magnetic pull. The temptation to use it, especially when I'm desperately in need of some insight, is almost irresistible." Desh

instantly see the answer.

The purpose of consciousness—any consciousness—was to achieve infinite comprehension.

Schopenhauer quote so insightful. "All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

the document now seemed to hover in front of him in perfect 3D clarity.

Knowledge is the food of the soul." —Plato

Intuition is just your subconscious putting together subtle clues and coming to a conclusion that your conscious mind hasn't quite reached.

If you turn on the light fast enough, you can see the darkness