Quotes About Insight

Uncle Claudie Windham's life has weathered to the color of wisdom.

If you want to know where your heart is, follow your mind when it wanders.

Think of a world of people born blind who, therefore, know only those objects and relations that exist through the sense of touch. Go among them, and speak to them of colors and the other relations that exist only through light and for the sense of sight. You will convey nothing to their minds, and this will be the more fortunate if they tell you so, for you will then quickly notice your mistake and, if unable to open their eyes, you will cease talking in vain . . . .

It does not matter if what I think differs from what the other person thinks. What matters is that, as a result of what I can contribute to the conversation, the other discovers what is right out of themselves.

These are two poles in the soul's life: loss of self in what one is contemplating and self-willed assertion of what lies within the self. These are two great opposites. If you wish to attain real knowledge and permeate yourself with wisdom, self-will is lethal. In ordinary life, we know self-will only as prejudice—and prejudices always destroy higher insight.

Pro ?lovÄ›ka je dokonce velmi Å¡patné, nem?že-li pÃ…â"¢istupovat k záhadÄ› bytí nejprve citem. Je proto nutné, aby vychovatel mÄ›l pro vÅ¡echny pÃ…â"¢írodní zákony a tajemství svÄ›ta k dispozici podobenství.

for how can you become wise and effective for anyone else until you have wisely and effectively understood and undertaken to change yourself?

How can you do anything until you have seen everything,or as much as you can?

The toad beneath the harrow knows Where every separate tooth-point goes ; The butterfly upon the road Preaches contentment to that toad.

One can't prescribe books, even the best books, to people unless one knows a good deal about each individual person.

To hear is one thing, to know is another.

And the Eldest Magician said, 'How wise are little children who see and are silent!

know too much, young un, said Billy, and that is one

Ostatní tÄ› nenávidí jen proto, že nesnesou tv?j pohled, protože jsi moudrý, protože jsi jim vytahal trny z nohou – protože jsi ?lovÄ›k.

One paid for one's knowledge with one's skin.

A wise person would have known this, but sometimes it is better to feel a prickle than to be wise.

You can only possess beauty through understanding it.

The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something and what it saw in a plain way. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion--all in one.

An idea is an eye given by God for the seeing of God. Some of these eyes we cannot bear to look out of; we blind them as quickly as possible.

What I learned is ignorance is not bliss. Ignorance is ignorance. You can't help or contribute to this planet without knowing what's really going on.

Experience, contrary to common belief, is mostly imagination.

We do not see the lens through which we look.

You can feel life completely by taking it away

she turned to the first page, feeling vaguely prurient, like an eavesdropper or a peeping tom. Novelists spend a lot of time poking their noses into other people's business. Ruth was not unfamiliar with this feeling.