All Quotes By Tag: Insight

“If things far away don’t concern you, you’ll soon mourn things close at hand.”

“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.”

“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”)”

“I don’t care what Einstein said about God not playing dice; If he exists, he’s addicted to craps.”

“My father once told me that it’s not enough for a man to be lucky; that a guy has to know when that streak is on for him.”

“The most intriguing people you will encounter in this life are the people who had insights about you, that you didn’t know about yourself.”

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

“If I see brokenness only as brokenness, I will have broken the opportunity in my brokenness. And that is the greatest brokenness of all.”

“Philosophy loves it wild.”

“How complete, whole, undivided seeing comes about is a mystery. Any formulation or method we invent will eventually get in our way. It’s as if everything we learn must be instantly left behind.”

“It’s humbling to think how different you would be if you were born in a different time.”

“Any man filled with empathy is capable of gaining valuable insights on the human condition through the suffering of others. You do not need to suffer to know suffering, but you need empathy first to identify and feel the suffering of others around you.”

“The problem of knowledge is that there are many more books on birds written by ornithologists than books on birds written by birds and books on ornithologists written by birds”

“A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight andunderstanding.”

“I would rather be able to appreciate things I cannot have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.”