Quotes About Insight

The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes. Doyle

Arthur Conan Doyle

In your own case, from all that you have told me, it seems obvious that your faculty of observation and your peculiar facility for deduction are due to your own systematic training. -John. Watson-

Ahora debía de tener veintisiete, una edad espléndida, cuando la juventud ha perdido su arrogancia y se vuelve algo más sensata gracias a la experiencia.

Datos, datos, datos!» —exclamaba con impaciencia—. «¡No puedo hacer ladrillos sin arcilla!»

We never see the signs we don't want to see.

You can know who a person is simply by staring into their eyes.

That's the way it is with me. I don't just see things as they are today. I see them as they were. I see them all around in time. And this is bad. Because it makes you think you know a place. Because it makes you think you know the people in it.

You never know what you are going to want until you see it clearly.

When I am afraid, I can see perfectly the sensible, beautiful not-afraid side of the world, I can see chairs and tables and windows staying the same, not affected in the least, and I can see things like the careful woven texture of the carpet, not even moving. But when I am afraid I no longer exist in any relation to these things. I suppose because things are not afraid.

Eleanor, watching, thought wryly that it might sometimes be oppressive to be for long around one so immediately in tune, so perceptive, as Theodora.

Like the saying goes: the dead look the way they eat! And you ought to see that woman's husband

Well, to quote my mother, a worm lies in horseradish and thinks there's nothing sweeter.

Nothing we see or hear is perfect. But right there in the imperfection is perfect reality.

The best way is to understand yourself, and then you will understand everything. So when you try hard to make your own way, you will help others, and you will be helped by others. Before you make your own way you cannot help anyone, and no one can help you.

The true purpose [of Zen] is to see things as they are, to observe things as they are, and to let everything go as it goes... Zen practice is to open up our small mind.

If you don't know why,I could never explain it to you.

Those who have eyes to see and ears to hear will soon convince themselves that mortals cannot hide any secret.

Dreams tell us many an unpleasant biological truth about ourselves and only very free minds can thrive on such a diet. Self-deception is a plant which withers fast in the pellucid atmosphere of dream investigation.

The profound obscurity of the background of our ignorance is scarcely illuminated by a few glimmers of insight.

Dreams are the royal road to the unconscious.

Therefore, let us not undervalue small signs; perhaps by means of them we will succeed in getting on the track of greater things.

The injunction that before making a final decision in any matter one should sleep on it for a night is obviously fully justified.

So long as we trace the development from its final outcome backwards, the chain of events appears continuous, and we feel we have gained an insight which is completely satisfactory or even exhaustive. But if we proceed in the reverse way, if we start from the premises inferred from the analysis and try to follow these up to the final results, then we no longer get the impression of an inevitable sequence of events which could not have otherwise been determined.