Quotes About Insight

If you think things can't get any worse, you have no imagination and no sense of history.

Wit and wisdom are born with a man.

Take a straw and throw it up into the air—you shall see by that which way the wind is.

Scrutamini scripturas [Let us look at the scriptures]. These two words have undone the world.

No man is the wiser for his learning. It may administer matter to work in, or objects to work upon, but wit and wisdom are born with a man.

No man is wiser for his learning, wit and wisdom are born with a man.

Philosophy is nothing but discretion.

Why' questions have little value, at best they get justifications or long explanations which do nothing to change the situation.

Any single person's viewpoint will have blind spots caused by their habitual ways of perceiving the world, their perceptual filters...How can we shift our perceptions to get outside our own limited world view?

When a human life is open to all that humanity can be, humanity and divinity flow together as one. It was and is a radical insight, and one the consciousness of the mystic is destined to understand.

I think we were very foolish, you and I.

I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.

I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen.

Commonplace wisdom is the best kind of wisdom for common needs and every-day occasions.

To understand one woman is not necessarily to understand any other woman.

There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.

It is only a man here and there who has any tolerable knowledge of the character even of the women of his own family.

He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that.

I believe in spectacles, but I think eyes necessary too.

Language is the light of the mind.

The test of real and vigorous thinking, the thinking which ascertains truths instead of dreaming dreams, is successful application to practice.

It is safe to say that the knowledge men can acquire of women, even as they have been and are—never mind what they could be—is wretchedly incomplete and superficial, and that it always will be so until women themselves have told all that they have to tell.

There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realised, until personal experience has brought it home

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