Quotes About Insight

Man is but a beast without it: such a glorious god is Learning.

Mindfulness brings to light experience in its pure immediacy. It reveals the object as it is before it has been plastered over with conceptual paint, overlaid with interpretations.

The teaching begins by calling upon us to develop a faculty called yoniso manasik?ra, careful attention. The Buddha asks us to stop drifting thoughtlessly through our lives and instead to pay careful attention to simple truths that are everywhere available to us, clamoring for the sustained consideration they deserve

The tool the Buddha holds out to free the mind from desire is understanding.

Truthful speech provides, in the sphere of interpersonal communication, a parallel to wisdom in the sphere of private understanding.

Do not speak quickly; it is a sign of insanity.

Who is like the wise man? Who knows the explanation of things? Wisdom brightens a man's face and changes its hard appearance

Speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee.

To acquire wisdom is to love oneself; people who cherish understanding will prosper.

Cry out for insight and understanding. Search for them as you would for lost money or hidden treasure.

How much better to get wisdom than gold, to get insight rather than silver!

In much wisdom is much grief.

These are the prerogatives of genius: To know without having learned; to draw just conclusions from unknown premises; to discern the soul of things.

I'm always trying to find brain food and indulge in knowledge that's gonna be useful.

Anlamaktan sonra gelen bir hal vard?: Kavramak. Anlad???n?n bütün a??rl???n? beyninde duymak, ellerinde, kollar?nda, damarlar?nda duymak.

The most important knowledge is understanding what you can't do.

One day I woke up and I was the oldest person in every room.

A word to the wise ain't necessary. It's the stupid ones who need the advice.

A word to the wise ain't necessary -- it's the stupid ones that need the advice.

A word to the wise isn't necessary, it is the stupid ones who need all the advice.

My childhood should have taught me lessons for my own parenthood, but it didn't because parenting can be learned only by people who have no children.

Sigmund Freud once said, "What do women want?" The only thing I have learned in fifty-two years is that women want men to stop asking dumb questions like that.

A word to the wise ain't necessary, it's the stupid ones who need advice.

Every closed eye is not sleeping, and every open eye is not seeing.