Quotes About Insight

The truth is not for all men but only for those who seek it.

The secrets of this earth are not for all men to see, but only for those who seek them.

Il casco nasconde sentimenti che non possono essere compresi.

Wisdom comes only from the understood experience and from nothing else.

Each insight should be nurtured and reinforced by bringing it up again and again and anchoring it in the mind. Then we will have access to it and be able to use it at all times.

It is only through literature that one can put oneself in someone else's shoes and understand the other's different and contradictory sides and refrain from becoming too ruthless. Outside the sphere of literature only one aspect of individuals is revealed. But if you understand their different dimensions you cannot easily murder them. . .

My friend, if I could give you one thing, I would wish for you the ability to see yourself as others see you. Then you would realize what a truly special person you are.

The sequence between shamatha and vipashyana makes perfect sense: first refine your powers of attention, then use them to explore and purify the mind, which can be directly examined only through first-person observation.

The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you

Fools say that they learn by experience. I prefer to profit by others' experience.' This saying, quoted of Bismarck,

Truth is a spiral staircase. What looks true on one level may not be true on the next higher level. A complete vision must extend vertically as well as horizontally; not only seeing the parts in relation to one another but embracing the different planes.

The woman could get a confession faster than a priest.

disturbances of the mind and emotions fade away, and we are able to see true reality.

Pausing to reflect on your movement does not mean that you are not reflecting through the movement. There should be constant analysis throughout the action, not just afterward. This leads to true understanding.

nothing does he hold the medalla oro." "Gracias, Don Andres. I shall remember," said Jack, and walked away to the stables. He felt that the heart of Don Andres Picardo was warring with his intelligence. That although his wide outlook and his tolerance

Poetry is the fiery index to the genius of the age.

You know Steve, you're not very hard to figure, only at times. Sometimes I know exactly what you're going to say. Most of the time. The other times ... the other times, you're just a stinker.

Naïveté, thy name is me.

Men's weaknesses and faults are best known from their enemies.

If a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she is blind, she is not invisible.

It is a strange thing to behold, what gross errors and extreme absurdities many (especially of the greater sort) do commit, for want of a friend to tell them of them.

And certain it is, that the light that a man receiveth by counsel from another, is drier and purer, than that which cometh from his own understanding and judgment; which is ever infused, and drenched, in his affections and customs.

Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune: for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible.

The most valuable result of many years is a nicely balanced mind instinctively heedful of various errors.