Quotes About Insight

I think a good many things that common folk call miracles are merely a matter of an observant person's good plain sense

When you start using senses you've neglected, your reward is to see the world with completely fresh eyes.

The cure for sorrow is to learn something.

1. What do you see as my major personality strengths? 2. What do you see as my marketable skills? 3. What kind of environment do you see me working in? 4. What do you think I need in a job? 5. What do you see in me that I probably don't see in myself?

Patanjali's method for achieving insight is far from the mystical ecstasy of a poet like St. John of the Cross or the ritual ecstasy of a shaman in a trance. It is instead a contemplative intensity that unbinds the constraints of everyday experience.

Learning from experience is a faculty almost never practiced

The reality of a question is inevitably more complicated than we would like to suppose.

Books} are the bankers of the treasures of the mind.

Books are humanity in print.

To be right and overruled is not forgiven to persons in responsible positions, and Michel duly paid for his clairvoyance.

Books are carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. They are engines of change, windows of the world, lighthouses erected in the sea of time.

Know, my son, with how little wisdom the world is governed.

If men could learn from history, what lessons it might teach us!" lamented Samuel Coleridge. "But passion and party blind our eyes, and the light which experience gives us is a lantern on the stern which shines only on the waves behind us." The image is beautiful but

If men could learn from history, what lessons it might teach us!" lamented Samuel Coleridge. "But passion and party blind our eyes, and the light which experience gives us is a lantern on the stern which shines only on the waves behind us.

the two lights of the world.

First of all, the Jewish religion has a great deal in common with the Christian religion because, as Rabbi Gillman points out in the show, Christianity is based on Judaism. Christ was Jewish.

Barbara Walters

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature is dumb, science is crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. They are engines of change, windows on the world, lighthouses erected in the sea of time.

The more history approaches to biography the more interest it excites.

it is true, even people with painful childhoods. . . grow up to be more interesting people. So, there's always a positive to a negative.

Basically poetry is not only something enjoyable, but a reservoir for wisdom, and a mirror that people can look into and see something in their own life.

Every religious revolution has been the struggle of thought to gain another step in the ladder that reaches to heaven.

Wisdom is inconceivable apart from something about which it can be called into operation.

He who remembers, sees; and he who sees, can fly.