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Insight Quotes
"Your Misunderstanding creates your Understanding!"
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"People sometimes get so lost in their own beliefs that they fail to gain truth and understanding. You can't get the whole picture just by relying on your own perception. Never be afraid of the truth."
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"No one tries to stone a tree whose fruit is not ripe."
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"It is only when you study and understand people that you begin to see God's principles in them."
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"Our world-view determines the manner in which we engage the world."
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"Nothing is perfect, nothing is imperfect. Perfection and imperfection reside in your perception."
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"But I don't care what you think, not about these things anyway. If you don't think they're real or important or you think that we'll all grow out of this nonsense, well, that's not really my business. I can't tell you what's real for you. But in return, you can't say what's real for me either. I get to choose. Not you."
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"Do you know what the difference is between knowing a bird and knowing about a bird?"
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"It's important for someone who could play the game - and win - to say: 'the game isn't worth shit."
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"Understanding is to knowledge what the flesh is to the body. Insight is to wisdom what life is to the soul."
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"The greatest of fools are those who fail to mark the invisible from the nonexistent."
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"Conformity to the present is invisibility to the future."
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"I will meet you in that gap where consciousness meets unconsciousness."
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"See the world from another perspective and things would be simple."
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"If you assume that it is there, you will generally not be far off the truth."
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"The height of your maturity and sagacity depends on your ability to see the beauty in ugly situations."
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"I've learned, that not all worth is measured by price. I've found so many gems that didn't cost me much!"
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"Moments of reflection occur with calm deliberation and careful thought. Imagine the thoughts which would come to you if you would simply allow them. By giving intentional consideration to a situation, you will gain clarity which you may not have achieved otherwise."
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"We need to go through all the processes in order to understand what our calling is."
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"To point out nonepistemic motives in another's view of the world, therefore, is always a criticism, as it serves to cast doubt upon a person's connection to the world as it is."
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"Undocumented revelation is a lost revelation."
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"It is the obvious which is so difficult to see most of the time. People say 'It's as plain as the nose on your face.' But how much of the nose on your face can you see, unless someone holds a mirror up to you?"
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"When we're interested in something, everything around us appears to refer to it (the mystics call these phenomena 'signs', the sceptics 'coincidence', and psychologists 'concentrated focus', although I've yet to find out what term historians would use)."
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"When you value someone, it merely shows that you truly have no idea about the person that they aren't showing you."
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"When we are able to do something so easily, we regard such thing as simple; but simplicity is complexity. Withing the things which are simple lay the things which are complex and within the things which are complex, lay the things which are simple."
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"God tells you where to look, love tells you what to see."
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"How can you tell when the devil is lying? His lips are moving."
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"It is often tragic to see how blatantly a man bungles his own life and the lives of others yet remains totally incapable of seeing how much the whole tragedy originates in himself, and how he continually feeds it and keeps it going. Not consciously, of course-for consciously he is engaged in bewailing and cursing a faithless world that recedes further and further into the distance. Rather, it is an unconscious factor which spins the illusions that veil his world. And what is being spun is a cocoon, which in the end will completely envelop him."
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"Truth is not introduced into the individual from without but was within him all the time."
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"When eagles are silent, parrots begin to chatter."
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"Due to the need to co-exist with these inhuman and inconsiderate people, we will obviously be disturbed by their acts; something which if we look at closely actually means that we too could be affecting some other people negatively every once in a while."
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"Change your understanding and then even the negative side of the blessings will make you rejoice in God's blessings."
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"If you understand the value of time, you will convert it into products."
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"The traveller's-eye view of men and women is not satisfying. A man might spend his life in trains and restaurants and know nothing of humanity at the end. To know one must be an actor as well as a spectator."
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"I am simply impressed by the unexpected insights which shower down on me when my job is to imagine, as contrasted with the woodenly familiar ideas which clutter my desk when my job is to tell the truth."
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"When hunting a lion it is wise to remind yourself that you too are being hunted."
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"He who knows the past well can best explain the present and can tell the probable certainties and uncertainties of the future better."
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"The wise man reveals more than words spoken."
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"It is at the edge of intelligence that wisdom awaits."
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"In knowledge there is strength, in understanding there is might, and in wisdom there is power."
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"Your life is a reflection of how effectively you balance potential and kinetic energy."
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"As usual, there was a story behind the story, and that is where the truth was hidden."
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"Backlock, a poet blind from his birth, could describe visual objects with accuracy; Professor Sanderson, who was also blind, gave excellent lectures on color, and taught others the theory of ideas which they had and he had not. In the social sphere these gifted ones are mostly women; they can watch a world which they never saw, and estimate forces of which they have only heard. We call it intuition."
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"Wisdom comes when you realize the pain, people, or problems life used to produce you now push you."
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"Most people who possess life in reality, do not quite understand what they possess."
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