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Insight Quotes
"The only people who see the whole picture are the ones who step outside the frame."
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"Just because your pain is understandable, doesn't mean your behavior is acceptable."
84
"I believe in intuitions and inspirations...I sometimes FEEL that I am right. I do not KNOW that I am."
73
"This was the trouble with families. Like invidious doctors, they knew just where it hurt."
69
"By its nature, what you yearn for is most often intimidating. It produces, and itself is, a question, and one that is not easy to engage or answer."
64
"One hand traced small circles against my back, and I pressed closer to him, listening to his heartbeat. "I used to think that having nothing to live for made you a better fighter, he murmured. "Turns out I was wrong on a lot of fronts."
63
"What we think about others is what others think about US!"
63
"What the wise see eyes closed is greater than what the ignorant see both eyes open."
62
"Anyone is to be pitied who has just sense enough to perceive his deficiencies."
60
"Confusion is a good state to be in. It means you are looking, constantly looking. People ask me, "Why do you confuse us like this?" I want you to understand, if you can be confused by anybody, it means you do not know. If you are fanatical, you cannot be confused. Or if you are realized, you cannot be confused. Between ignorance and enlightenment is a very thin line. But they are worlds apart."
59
"That's why I'm talking to you. You are one of the rare people who can separate your observation from your preconception. You see what is, where most people see what they expect."
58
"Analogies it is true decide nothing but they can make one feel more at home."
58
"A pigs and pain, until you really get to know 'em. Then he's a paid with the soul."
57
"In my experience, men who understand women seem to rarely want to have anything to do with them."
57
"Yeah. I mean, acknowledging is easy. Something happened or it didn't. But understanding... that's where things get sticky."
57
"Too bad children don't know how profound their thoughts are."
56
"Intuition is not a different dimension of perception, as people usually try to make out. Intuition is just a quicker way of arriving at the same answer. Intuition is just a way of making use of the data and jumping the steps."
54
"You learn nothing about men by snubbing them and crushing their pride. You must ask them what it is they can do in this world, that they alone can do."
54
"The reasons that center on others are easy to manipulate. All hollow things are light."
54
"We always pay dearly for chasing after what is cheap."
53
"You carry the message you've been seeking, but realization of it is found in healthy retrospection, not among the wilderness of chaotic noise."
53
"What separates us into engineers and robots, puppeteers and puppets, kings and pawns, is not the status we hold at any given time among others - status is irrelevant; it is the level of ever-present awareness we have of a grey-matter tailor's tools [of flattery, persuasion, and cunning.]"
52
"Because a quiet night is not the same as a silent one, a firm man is not the same as a steady one, and a bright light is not the same as a brilliant one."
52
"You can never know everything, and part of what you know is always wrong. Perhaps even the most important part. A portion of wisdom lies in knowing that. A portion of courage lies in going on anyway."
52
"I beg your pardon, one knows exactly what to think."
51
"When you realise the difference between the container and the content, you will have knowledge."
49
"MISUNDERSTANDING' arises only when you see the things with Closed Eyes."
49
"He reflected. 'I know a lot of different kids of people what I want is to show each of them how the others really are. You hear so many lies!"
49
"She knew the true shape of the world. All else was shadow and the sound of distant drums."
49
"I create lies for people in order for them to find something true about themselves. I teach people that lies are doors that opens up to truth. Either you accept the lie, or you run away from it, thus, eliminating the meaning behind it, and what is could have accomplished."
49
"When I was a kid I use to put a puzzle together over and over until I got really good at it so one day I turned all the pieces upside down and built it, then I understood the true nature of the puzzle."
48
"By getting to know you I get to know myself too."
48
"Understanding do not come by being religious."
47
"I am an owl, bird of the night. I see everything. I know everything."
46
"It's hardly ever that I am hurt by something in only one dimension."
45
"Truth is not introduced into the individual from without but was within him all the time."
44
"See what no one else can see. Be what no one else can be. Do what no one else can do."
44
"Curiosity is the hair of our habit tending to stand on end. It rarely happens that our attention is not stained in greater or lesser degree by this animal element."
44
"Really, weren't these facts just placeholders until the long view could really assert itself?"
43
"We understand more than we know."
43
"It may not be prudent to seek new things, but it is wise to see things in a new way."
43
"The ones with no imagination are always the quickest to justify themselves."
42
"It's frustrating when you know all the answers, but nobody bothers to ask you the questions."
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