Quotes About Insight

Stock your mind, stock your mind. It is your house of treasure and no one in the world can interfere with it... you might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.

The man who does not see God may have vast knowledge of this or that section of being, but he is like a man who should know all about the eye never having seen a face.

Truth is light too. Not to see it is to be in darkness, to see it wrong is to be in double darkness.

GÅ'upota ma pewien urok- ignorancja nie.

Orm remarked that he knew enough about men not to argue with poets concerning their respective merits;

If a man has his eyes bound, you can encourage him as much as you like to stare through the bandage, but he'll never see anything.

If the book we are reading does not wake us, as with a fist hammering on our skull, why then do we read it?

All knowledge, the totality of all questions and answers, is contained in the dog.

I like to make use of what I know

No matter how much you keep encouraging someone who is blindfolded to stare through the cloth, he still won't see a thing..

Un libro dev'essere un'ascia per il mare ghiacciato che è dentro di noi.

I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us. If the book we're reading doesn't wake us up with a blow on the head, what are we reading it for?

What is written is merely the dregs of experience.

The purpose of a story is to be an axe that breaks up the ice within us.

Some books seem like a key to unfamiliar rooms in one's own castle.

Not everyone can see the truth, but everyone can be the truth.

How pathetically scanty my self-knowledge is compared with, say, my knowledge of my room.

Du kannst jemanden, der die Augen verbunden hat, noch so sehr aufmuntern, durch das Tuch zu starren, er wird doch niemals etwas sehen; erst wenn man ihm das Tuch abnimmt, kann er sehen.

I write to close my eyes.

Every new discovery is assumed at once into the sum total of knowledge, and with that ceases in a sense to be a discovery; it dissolves into the whole and disappears, and one must have a trained scientific eye even to recognize it after that.

san otkriva stvarnost za kojom predstava zaostaje.strashno potiche od zhivota – potresno od umetnosti.

Enlightenment comes to even the dimmest. It begins around the eyes, and it spreads outward from there- a sight that might tempt one to lie down under the harrow oneself.

It isn't necessary that you leave home. Sit at your desk and listen. Don't even listen, just wait. Don't wait, be still and alone. The whole world will offer itself to you.

Enlightenment comes to the most dull-witted. It begins around the eyes. From there it radiates.