686 Quotes About Insight

Pomposity plans your eviction just as your derriere is settling on to the finest of cushions.

What I know is dwarfed by what I don’t know. And if I know this, I know more than those who think they know.

What we forget is that the past is not a place to live. Rather, it is the place that gives us what we need to live more robustly in a present that will become an even more magical past if we let it be so.

Insight is the understanding that comes from self-awareness.

Insight comes through relentless contemplation upon the world within and the world without.

Never give advice unless you have walked the walk, because anybody can talk the talk.

Emotion is ‘recognition’. When treasured moments are identified in the jungle of our personal history during a visual or aural encounter, we capture magic sparks from our past, arousing flashes of insight and revealing an inner flare. These instants of recognition may kindle enthralling emotion and fulfilling inspiration. (“Those journeys of love”)

Sounds travel through space long after their wave patterns have ceased to be detectable by the human ear: some cut right through the ionosphere and barrel on out into the cosmic heartland, while others bounce around, eventually being absorbed into the vibratory fields of earthly barriers, but in neither case does the energy succumb; it goes on forever - which is why we, each of us, should take pains to make sweet notes.

I was born on the day the music died.