Quotes About Insight

had sought, and with that comprehension came a new clarity, a return to sanity, and even a kind of wisdom.

The only people who see the whole picture are the ones who step out of the frame.

His father said to him: 'See now. You pay your way. I've made a man of you.' But what man That's what fathers never know. Not in advance. Not until it's too late

And so it's interesting to remember that when Mahatma Gandhi, the father of an earlier freedom movement, came to England and was asked what he thought of English civilization, he replied: 'I think it would be a good idea.

We underestimate our fellow humans because we underestimate ourselves. They - we - are capable of being much more than we seem

To be thin-skinned, far-sighted, and loose-tongued," he said, "is to feel too sharply, see too clearly, speak too freely. It is to be vulnerable to the world when the world believes itself invulnerable

The more I see of the West, he says, the more I realize that the best things in life come from the East.

nobody can face the world with his eyes open all the time.

To understand just one life, you have to swallow the world. I told you that.

imagined world behind our eyelids can drip its magic into the world we see when we open our eyes.

Tai tapped his left nostril. 'You know what this is, Nakkoo? It's the place where the outside world meets the world inside you.

here is so particular wisdom in the East, all human beings are foolish to the same degree.

To know one man's story you have to swallow the world.

to understand me, you'll have to swallow a world.

The first lesson of my life: nobody can face the world with his eyes open all the time.

All novelists know that crisis reveals character.

if human nature were not a mystery, we'd have no need of poets.

I told you so',was Abdullah Noman's favourite song,because he was cursed with the curse of knowing too much and the double curse of being unable to avoid pointing this out even though it made Firdus Begum threaten to hit him on the head with a stone.

Emerson said, "To the dull mind, all of nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world sparkles with light." The illumined mind has shifted to the light.

On one level, wisdom is nothing more profound than an ability to follow one's own advice.

The fact that millions of people use the term morality as a synonym for religious dogmatism, racism, sexism, or other failures of insight and compassion should not oblige us to merely accept their terminology until the end of time.

wisdom is nothing more profound than an ability to follow one's own advice.

Religious moderates seem to believe that what we need is not radical insight and innovation in these areas but a mere dilution of Iron Age philosophy.

Many truths about ourselves will be discovered in consciousness directly or not discovered at all.