insight quotes

Without stirring abroad, One can know the whole world; Without looking out of the window One can see the way of heaven. The further one goes The less one knows.

The best advice comes from people who don’t give advice.

We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect.

There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.

The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.

Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above, not against them.

Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.

To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.

We shall see but a little way if we require to understand what we see.

They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve.

The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world… to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.

On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points.

The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.

The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.

Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.

The eye sees what it brings the power to see.

Meditation is to get insight, to get understanding and compassion, and when you have them, you are compelled to act.

Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.

Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.

If you have the insight of non-self, if you have the insight of impermanence, you should make that insight into a concentration that you keep alive throughout the day. Then what you say, what you think, and what you do will then be in the light of that wisdom and you will avoid making mistakes and creating suffering.

I actually do think you’re seeing this trend towards organizations just caring more about their brand and engaging. And so I think Home Depot will want to humanize itself. I think that’s a lot of why companies are starting blogs, are just giving more insight into what’s going on with them.

I have never been bewildered for long in any fight with our enemies – I was Armed with Insight.

Who is the wise man? He who sees what’s going to be born.

Not everyone can see the truth, but he can be it.

It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.

You know, my main reaction to this money thing is that it’s humorous, all the attention to it, because it’s hardly the most insightful or valuable thing that’s happened to me.

If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.

The only real valuable thing is intuition.

Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin.

Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.

Wisdom is found only in truth.

Meditation is not to avoid society; it is to look deep to have the kind of insight you need to take action. To think that it is just to sit down and enjoy the calm and peace, is wrong.

There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance.

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.

It takes a wise man to discover a wise man.