Quotes About Insight

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Throw away the light, the definitions, and say what you see in the dark.

Life is like a mirror, what you see out there, you must first see what is inside you.

Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.

I usually learn more from the situations I hate than the ones I love.

To force oneself to believe and to accept a thing without understanding is political, and not spiritual or intellectual.

You may see the light, but the light is not the result of your eyesight.

It is always seeing through knowledge or wisdom (ñ??a-dassana), and not believing through faith.

When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.

Books are not men—

Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons.

I discover myself on the verge of a usual mistake.

One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

A great painter of men must (as has been said) have a faculty of conversing, but he must also have a capacity for solitude. There is much of mankind that a man can only learn from himself.

The reason that there are so few good books written is that so few people who write know anything.

The abstract thinking of the world is never to be expected of persons in high places...

The more circumspectly you delay writing down an idea, the more maturely developed it will be on surrendering itself.

How many cities have revealed themselves to me in the marches I undertook in the pursuit of books!

Perhaps, after all, the greatest psychologist is not the metaphysician but the novelist.

This is a very simple Rule, but one to which there should be no exception — never to go beyond your own experience.

Jesus astonishes his contemporaries by his capacity to see and act beyond conventional assumptions.

The poets speak only poetry, not program, not policy, not even advocacy, only poetry. But the poetry exists in order to make available what the ideologues are unable to see and what the policy makers are unable to grasp.

If you are sure you understand everything that is going on, you are hopelessly confused

When you write biographies, whether it's about Ben Franklin or Einstein, you discover something amazing: They are human.