Quotes about Insight

To know a thing well, know its limits. Only when pushed beyond its tolerances will true nature be seen.

The proper teaching is recognized with ease. You can know it without fail because it awakens within you that sensation which tells you this is something you've always known." There

You have eyes, yet cannot see without light.

The oracle cannot chance upon what it cannot understand.

the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the righteous and the valor of the brave.

But he felt nothing except: Here's an important fact. It was one with all the other facts.

And Jessica, noting the words and manner, caught the deeper implications in the phrase, "the body's water.

Muad'Dib gave us a particular kind of knowledge about prophetic insight, about the behaviour which surrounds such insight and its influence upon events whcih are seen to be on line. (That is, events which are set to occur in a related system which the prophet reveals and interprets.) As has been noted elsewhere, such insight operates as a peculiar trap for the prophet himself. He can become the victim of what he knows — which is a relatively common human failing.

Moneo's eyes went wide with a sudden questioning awareness. He had seen the action of many polarities—the thing made known by its opposite.

We open windows, Bell, and let in common sense. Even hilarity. Puts more serious matters in perspective.

There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.

William Regal once told us he people-watched when he was in the ring. He would see things that people would do. And if they annoyed him, chances are they would annoy someone else. A lot of times I'll just people watch when I'm traveling or at the airport or living everyday life.