Quotes About Insight

My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is.

Unless you believe, you will not understand.

You will find something more in woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never learn from masters.

The scars of others should teach us caution.

To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.

By viewing images we cast onto outer reality as mirror reflections of inner reality, we come to know ourselves.

Jack Kennedy brought an "intense concentration" and a "gently teasing humor" to the dinner table, along with what Katherine Graham called his habit of "vacuum cleaning your brain.

It is enough to know... Too much to see...

The most hardest thing in the world is that understanding someone's mind. Because you cannot get what's really going on their mind.

The only people who see the whole picture,' he murmured, 'are the ones who step out of the frame.

I want to perceive and understand the hidden powers and laws of things, in order to have them in my power.

The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.

Everyone should eat hashish, but only once.

What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdads of his dreams to rise from the dust.

If you want to know how your girl will treat you after marriage, just listen to her talking to her little brother.

It's simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite.

You think you know yourself, the world. You believe you've got a bead on everybody else's bullshit, but what about your own?

Every picture has been a learning opportunity for me.

I saw things at an early age because my mom was a theater actress. I did a play with her when I was 10 years old.

Mere sincerity, passionate devotion, clarity of conviction, and depth of insight are all ultimately useless unless they are rooted in and focused on the person and work of Jesus.

Cognitive insight (knowing something) is not like emotional insight (feeling something). It has no psychodynamic effects. It does not affect the narcissist's behavior patterns, or his interpersonal interactions - the products of well entrenched and rigid defense mechanisms.

People can make beautiful mistakes, dear, and each one is an arrow, a brilliant arrow, pointing out the right way to there.

I have been telling myself that these feelings are new, but they aren't, I just didn't connect them before