Quotes About Insight

Hindsight is always 20/20, foresight rarely better than a blur

For only with the deepest knowledge can one diagnose that most elusive of conditions: the truth.

The world can be seen from so many different angles. Each of us is born seeing the world in a different way, and each moment we live shapes our eyes and hearts differently.

Two blind men do not make a sighted one. – Brother Horse

If you have to be hit over the head to learn something about yourself, you'll be someone who thinks that people only learn if you hit them over the head.

Damnant quod non intelligunt." They condemn what they do not understand.

He always knew the right thing to say. He understood how to shift a conversation to a place that moved the content from the maudlin to true compassion.

Shutting up and just blinking at them is like giving them an information Heimlich," he'd said. "Be patient, and they'll cough it up all over you." Sure enough, Dina hacked it up.

If a crystal ball gives God any advantage, then you've got a stupid God.

They are descriptions of what real life looks like, not prescriptions for how to get life.

The psychedelics are a powerful educational tool. They are the surest way to learn the arbitrariness of our ordinary perception. Many of us have had to use them to find out how little we knew.

Nobody can test an idea before taking the trouble to have an idea.

Script writing advice, from (William?) Rotsler (p.80) Funny is better than serious Short is better than long Short and funny is where you stop.

Terrors can be mirrors, too.

There was a thin chain to thinking, he realized, which began with seeing something noticeable, which in time made you see something that wasn't apparent, which finally made you see something that wasn't even visible—if you were doing it right.

Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment. —MULLAH NASRUDIN, 1200s AD

Ah, to be able to read both the surface and that which is below the surface!

We are collections of things that we find and experience and value and keep inside ourselves, sometimes knowingly, sometimes unknowingly, and that collection of things is what we finally become.

I hesitated. Karla once said that men reveal what they think when they look away, and what they feel when they hesitate. With women, she said, it's the other way around.

It took me a long time and most of the world to learn what I know about love and fate and the choices we make, but the heart of it came to me in an instant, while I was chained to a wall and being tortured.","Gregory David Roberts

The simple and astonishing truth about India and Indian people is that when you go there, and deal with them, your heart always guides you more wisely than your head.

Good is only half the truth, and truth is only half the story.

I think wisdom is over-rated. Wisdom is just cleverness, with all the guts kicked out of it. I'd rather be clever than wise, any day. Most of the wise people I know give me a headache, but I never met a clever man or woman I didn't like.