Quotes About Insight

There is no formula that can deliver all truth, all harmony, all simplicity. No Theory of Everything can ever provide total insight. For, to see through everything, would leave us seeing nothing at all.

When you see the ugliness behind the tears of another person, it makes you take a closer look at your own.

Every day, no matter how you fight it, you learn a little more about yourself, and all most of it does is teach humility.

you begin to realize that The Mountains and Rivers Sutra is not a sutra about mountains and rivers, but rather that the mountains and rivers are themselves the sutra.

With Nectar in your Mind instead of Thinking, you have Understanding band Wisdom

With Nectar in your Mind instead of Thinking, you have Understanding and Wisdom

Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use.

The more depressed and maladjusted you are, the more likely it is that you are seeing things right, with minimal bias

It is characteristic of science that the full explanations are often seized in their essence by the percipient scientist long in advance of any possible proof.

Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his success.

All genuine learning comes through experience.

Of what use, educationally speaking, is it to be able to see the end in the beginning?

A problem well-defined is a problem half solved.

In object lessons in elementary education and in laboratory instruction in higher education, the subject is often so treated that the student fails to "see the forest on account of the trees.

Thinking is not a case of spontaneous combustion; it does not occur just on "general principles.

A problem properly stated is half solved.

We do not learn from experience... we learn from reflecting on experience.

A problem well put is half solved.

knowledge is the most powerful thing on earth, harvest it and use it wisely

The truly wise know that what we really need are those things that permit our true natures to emerge.

He looked off into the distance with narrowed eyes. Man of action, seeing things no one else does. "Let's just say we had indications…" and he let it dangle in the air, as if mystery were the ultimate justification.

He was naturally learned; he needed not the spectacles of books to read Nature; he looked inwards, and found her there.

Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow; He who would search for pearls, must dive below.

I am in a sorry state, for I do not even know what I do not know. —St. Augustine