Quotes About Insight

People who were right a lot of the time were people who often changed their minds.

It's a weird sensation to be mad and learning at the same time.

Many times the rewards of fasting come after the fast, though from time to time answers can come during the fast.

Fully to understand a grand and beautiful thought requires, perhaps, as much time as to conceive it.

Stupidity trumps Machiavelli almost every time when you are looking for an explanation.

The only way into truth is through one's own annihilation; through dwelling a long time in a state of extreme and total humiliation.

The only way to get our values right is to see, not the beginning, but the end of the way, to see things not only in the light of time but in the light of Eternity.

So our virtues lie in the interpretation of the time

For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.

Genius is never understood in its own time.

A lot of the time I'm working with people who are older than me.

Dedicated to all those who say: "I don't have time for analytics" or "I don't understand analytics".

One of the advantages of the book's having been out there for more than a quarter century is that there's been time for people to report back on what it's done for them.

Strange thoughts brew in your heart when you spend too much time with old books

A lot of time mistakes are very interesting - you look for the behaviour that's not the one you expect.

To read is to voyage through time.

Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.

I have epiphanies all the time, because I'm always thinking. I'm a thinker. I'm always writing poetry, I'm always coming to conclusions.

Who knew that all this time the nectar of the Gods was in my va-jay-jay.

I'll just tell you the way it is. You ask me what time it is and I'm gonna tell you how to build a clock.

I make a note, set it aside, and hope it makes sense when the time comes to look at it again.

I don't know where a poem comes from until after I've lived with it a long time. I've a notion that a poem comes from absolutely everything that every happened to you.

Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when you are forty or fifty - and vise versa. Don't read a book out of its right time for you.

A teacher or teaching is not essential for spiritual awakening, but they save time.