Quotes About Insight

Aristotle famously said, "The more you know, the more you know you don't know

The stranger is often a person who can see and understand the context much better than a person who has lived there for a thousand years

Two guys walk into a bar. You'd think one of them would have seen it.

We insist on steering our boats because we think we have a pretty good idea of where we should go, but the truth is that much of our steering is in vain—not because the boat won't respond, and not because we can't find our destination, but because the future is fundamentally different than it appears through the prospectiscope. Just

It is difficult to escape the focus of our own attention–difficult to consider what it is we may not be considering–and this is one of the reasons why we so often mispredict our emotional responses to future events.

One learns a lot if others assume you are deaf to their tongue.

La compassion demeure une voie d´accès à la compréhension, une forme supérieure d´intelligence.

On commence par savoir, ensuite on comprend, enfin seulement vient la Connaissance.

Master Sun put it simply: "Know the enemy and know yourself; in a hundred battles you will never be in peril

The MI folks could usually tell you the make, model, year, paint color, and license plate of the semitrailer truck that just ran over you.

In short, to empty the mind means 'to polish the mirror', thereby permitting clear reflections of external phenomena and spontaneous insights into the true nature of reality.

Quels pédagogues nous étions, quand nous n'avions pas le souci de la pédagogie !

Quando una persona cara ci dà un libro da leggere, la prima cosa che facciamo è cercarla fra le righe, cercare i suoi gusti, i motivi che l'hanno spinta a piazzarci quel libro in mano.

El humor, esa expresión irreductible de ética.

Não se esforça a curiosidade, desperta-se

A well-chosen book saves you from everything, including yourself.

The paradoxical virtue of reading lies in distancing ourselves from the world so that we may make sense of it.

Being prepared to receive what thought is not prepared to think is what deserves the name of thinking.

No science can explain the drawn-out phases of a large-dose ibogaine trip, the twenty-hour passage from vision to insight, experienced almost universally.

En ocasiones un idiota puede decir algo genial y un genio decir una idiotez.

Spiritual masters claim that the insights obtained from the 'original mind' in deep meditation cannot be conveyed in terms of rational thought and language, which are products of an entirely different, much narrower mode of consciousness. Only through persistent personal practice may one come to experience the awareness of 'original mind' and tap the vast trove of primordial wisdom and spiritual insight it holds.

And your new employers?" asked the don. "Every bed has lice," said Keller. "Only the spoon," replied the don, "knows the pot's sorrows.

I like the darkness. It clarifies my thinking. – Gabriel Allon

Only the spoon," replied the don , "knows the pot's sorrows.