Quotes about Insight

There's something advantageous about having people underestimate your intellect, insomuch as a lot of things are revealed to you. They assume you don't know what you're talking about, then all of a sudden, you do. And the next thing you know, you have information you wouldn't normally have.

Sometimes you have to shove all the surface stuff to the side in order to see what's underneath.

Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist.

I'm just getting older and I'm understanding the game and I'm more experienced in the league.

Meditation demands an astonishingly alert mind; it is the understanding of the totality of life in which every form of fragmentation has ceased.

It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else's meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.

If one is only to talk from first-hand experience, conversation would be a very poor business.

[Gratitude is] the cheerfulness of wisdom.

Am I a man of great wisdom? Hardly! Even when a simple person brings me a question, my mind goes utterly blank, I just thrash it out until I've exhausted every possibility.

Never allow your life to be dictated by what you can see by sight, be guided by your inner vision.

The difference between those who achieve their dreams and those who don't is in their ability to see not only with their eyes but also their minds.

In knowledge there is strength, in understanding there is might, and in wisdom there is power.