Quotes About Insight

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, & the world around us.

Conocerse a uno mismo, ese es el principio fundamental de la verdadera sabiduría Humana.

To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

wisdom begins in wonder

The definition of terms is the beginning of wisdom.

I am likely to be wiser than he to this small, extent, that I do not think I know what I do not know

Sometimes you have to lose your mind before you come to your senses.

If I save my insight, I don't attend to weakness of eyesight.

Homme, connais-toi toi-même!

wonder is the beginning of wisdom

We gain our first measure of intelligence when we first admit our own ignorance.

Gustavo Solivellas dice: "La verdadera Sabiduría está en reconocer la propia ignorancia" (Sócrates)

Do not mistake understanding for realization, and do not mistake realization for liberation.

Rely on the message of the teacher, not on his personality; Rely

The still revolutionary insight of Buddhism is that life and death are in the mind, and nowhere else. Mind is revealed as the universal basis of experience—the creator of happiness and the creator of suffering, the creator of what we call life and what we call death.

What is really baffling about life is that sometimes, despite all our confusion, we can also be really wise!

Si eres demasiado listo, puedes perderte lo esencial».

If you are too clever, you could miss the point entirely.

the truth of the teaching which is all-important, and never the personality of the teacher.

The nature of mind is just too close to be recognized. Just as we are unable to see our own face, mind finds it difficult to look into its own nature. 2.

The more and more you listen, the more and more you hear; the more and more you hear, the deeper and deeper your understanding becomes.

I'm like my mother, she thought, I search my joy for signs of sorrow ahead.

As we were walking the other day, she said she had often thought what a beautiful world this would be, when we should see every thing right side up. Now, we see every thing topsy-turvy, and all is confusion.

I tell you I can't read a book, but I can read de people.