686 Quotes About Insight

Intelligence is a seed, understanding is the stem, insight is the branches, and wisdom is the fruit.

Enlightenment needs embodiment. Wide-open insight needs deep-rooted instinct. As above, so below.

The lies they've convinced their eyes that they're seeing, will not mar the truth in my lens.

Insight is the real enlightenment with limitless potential to do good in the world.

...but I’d learned a long time ago that the worse things are, the more people lie about them.

Sit on the train tracks and really believe a train won’t come; lie in your house when it is inflamed and tell yourself that it really isn’t burning; go ahead, neglect all sort of reason and continue to tell yourself that what you believe is the irrefutable truth and the day will come when you are wakened by a piercing whistle and scorching flames.

The unquestioned mind is the world of suffering.

Ze všeho nejvíce Gausse rozčilovaly stále nové a nové pokusy různých geometrů dokázat pátý postulát. Nyní, když znal nový geometrický svět, když do něj bezpečně nahlížel, odhaloval v těchto domnělých důkazech chybu vždy hned při prvním pohledu. Jasně viděl, jak geometři tápají v tmách, jak plýtvají silami na těchto beznadějných pokusech - a pomoci jim nemohl; nesměl.

Littlewood, on Hardy's own estimate, is the finest mathematician he has ever known. He was the man most likely to storm and smash a really deep and formidable problem; there was no one else who could command such a combination of insight, technique and power.