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Insight Quotes
"See the world from another perspective and things would be simple."
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"I understand your actions more than your conversations."
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"Self-knowledge is the greatest kind of knowledge."
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"Visible obstacles shine a light on hidden opportunities."
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"If you assume that it is there, you will generally not be far off the truth."
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"One with more insight (sooj) is considered wise. To have more insight [sooj] is a natural gift. One may have more sooj but may have no intellect."
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"Often the heart can see what the eyes cannot."
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"When sheep grow blind, it is only wolves that rejoice."
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"Admiration is the daughter of ignorance."
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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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"An ounce of wisdom can prevent a pound of folly."
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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 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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"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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"The eye of judgment sees at a distance what it refuses to see in it's own reflection."
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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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"LSD was an incredible experience. Not that I'm recommending it for anybody else; but for me it kind of ' it hammered home to me that reality was not a fixed thing. That the reality that we saw about us every day was one reality, and a valid one ' but that there were others, different perspectives where different things have meaning that were just as valid. That had a profound effect on me."
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"Wisdom gives us the understanding that God has given us commandments for our benefit."
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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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"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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"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 opinion should be based on what you see with your own eyes, hear with your own ears & feel with your own heart."
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"Don't be so damned discouraging," said Wimsey. "I have already carefully explained to you that this time I am investigating this business. Anybody would think you had no confidence in me.""People have been wrongly condemned before now.""Exactly; simply because I wasn't there.""I never thought of that."
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"Soar to heights where you may view the world from a new perspective."
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"Lend an ear to your inner voice and intuition."
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"That, as my cousin Nord would say, is where my improvised lie falls apart."
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"If we studied the issue of forgiveness with a wider perspective, we are bound to opt for it after all."
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"What you need and what you want aren't the same things."
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"It is not the fault of the stars that they shine brightly, but the fault of our eyes that they cannot handle light."
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"For most people, blaming others is a subconscious mechanism for avoiding accountability. In reality, the only thing in your way is YOU."
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"I'm inclined to reserve all judgments, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and also made me the victim of not a few veteran bores."
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"There's none so blind as they that won't see."
"Briar: "So I guess I was the last to know." Rosethorn: "Of course you are. You're a man, aren't you?"
"I shall always consider the best guesser the best prophet."
"In every bad situation we have to see Satan's motives behind a person's actions."
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