Quotes About Insight

The landscape belongs to the person who looks at it.

Logic is the procession or proportionate unfolding of the intuition;

Far otherwise; your silence answers very loud. You have no oracle to utter, and your fellow-men have learned that you cannot help them; for, oracles speak. Doth not wisdom cry, and understanding put forth her voice?

Literature is a heap of nouns and verbs enclosing an intuition or two

So far, I've spoken of four major benefits of studying natural science: it sends us outdoors, which aids our health; its discoveries drive invention and manufacturing; it's a way of learning truths about the world; and it points the way to wisdom.

A tragédia está nos olhos de quem a observa, e não no coração de quem a sofre

Presently a new experience gives a new turn to our thoughts.

No truth so sublime but it may be trivial to-morrow in the light of new thoughts.

education is more precious than that which we call so.

There is a property inside the horizon which no guy has but he whose eye can integrate all the parts, this is, the poet.

There is then creative reading as well as creative writing

In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight.

Our eyes are holden that we cannot see things that stare us in the face, until the hour arrives when the mind is ripened; then we behold them, and the time when we saw them not is like a dream. — Ralph Waldo Emerson, from "Spiritual Laws," Essays and Lectures . (Library of America November 15, 1983)

Information is just bits of data. Knowledge is putting them together. Wisdom is transcending them.

To him who has had the experience no explanation is necessary, to him who has not, none is possible.

I didn't arrive at my understanding of the fundamental laws of the universe through my rational mind."—A. Einstein

We have what we seek. It is there all the time, and if we give it time it will make itself known to us. —Thomas Merton

Knowledge all by itself, without deep wisdom, ends up becoming despair.

If a pickpocket meets a saint, he sees only his pockets." Then he'd get up and leave. Or he'd write, "If you wear shoeleather, the whole earth is covered with leather." These were his ways of teaching me about how motivation affects perception.

If you listen to your own inner voice, it will tell you where you are now, and which method will work best for you in your evolution towards the light.

To him who has had the experience no explanation is necessary, to him who has not, none is possible." And

Trust the messages coming from your heart and intuition.

If you observe well, your own heart will answer."—de Lubicz

In The Lazy Man's Guide to Enlightenment, Thaddeus Golas says, "You never have to change what you see, only the way you see it.