Quotes About Insight

The thing about living alone is that it gives you a lot of time to think. You don't necessarily reach any conclusions, because wisdom is largely a function of intelligence and self-awareness, not time on your hands.

It's rare for someone to say something to you, just a few words, really, and actually make you see yourself from a completely different vantage point.

wisdom is largely a function of intelligence and self-awareness, not time on your hands.

The reason wisdom is meant to be imparted is because you acquire it only after it's too late to apply to yourself.

It occurs to hi that what he has failed to impart through wisdom, he may well have imparted through stupidity.

A lot of truth is said in jest.

Proof had this ability to not only nurture my talent, but to see that diamond in the rough when a million people could be looking at the same thing... and just not see it.

Knowledge is power, but powerless If you've got it and you do not acknowledge it

To those who see the magical surface of things, you are invisible.' Good grief. Will you still be able to see me?' He met her eyes in a way that made her shiver pleasantly. 'I see you in a great many ways. It would be hard to blind me in all of them.

We Burmese,' he began, 'are experts at looking for what's not there. It's something you should learn to do too. You must look for what's missing and learn how to find the truth in these absences.

As in Hegel's "struggle of the enlightenment with superstition," in his Phenomenology of Spirit of 1807, enlightenment was the dominion of "pure insight and its diffusion," and it seeped into men's thoughts like a "perfume," or like an "infection."47

rappresenta il vertice della saggezza e non basta una vita a farsene permeare, ad assimilarla, ad interiorizzarla in modo che cessi di essere un'idea e plasmi invece il nostro modo di vedere e di agire in ogni situazione

And learn, never stop learning what the wise teach

Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Many a true word is spoken in jest.

Many things are lost for want of asking.

The eyes are the window of the soul.

When a man goes through six years training to be a doctor he will never be the same. He knows too much.

Nothing like having a bucket of cold water flung over you to make you see things as they really are!

3And I, Enoch, I alone saw the likeness of the end of all things. Nor did any human being see it, as I saw

they who are wise shall be humble.

Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

Cuando el amor llega puede ser ciego, pero cuando se va es muy lúcido.

la inteligencia es una forma de evaluar la realidad que, según el dominio de un tipo de inteligencia o de otro, dará diferentes resultados.