insight-quotes

Everything in your mental life proceeds in proper neurological order. If you could have sufficient insight into all the inner and outer parts of your mental life, along with remembrance and intelligence enough to consider all the circumstances and take them into account, you would be a true prophet and visualize the future in the present as in a mirror.

Short prayers with long legs travel far.

The highest prayers lift you out of the lowest places.

Standing on the shoulders of the great allows you to see further than everyone.

Understanding is to knowledge what the flesh is to the body. Insight is to wisdom what life is to the soul.

If you point to paradise, all the shortsighted will see is your finger.

Wisdom at the mountain-foot sees farther than intelligence at the mountaintop.

Intelligence is the icing, but wisdom is the cake.

Sages see further with their eyes closed than scholars with their eyes open.

A marijuana high can enhance core human mental abilities. It can help you to focus, to remember, to see new patterns, to imagine, to be creative, to introspect, to empathically understand others, and to come to deep insights. If you don__ find this amazing you have lost your sense of wonder. Which, by the way, is something a high can bring back, too.

When everybody is planting apples a visionary plants oranges.

Knowledge offers you strength. Wisdom promises you influence. Understanding assures you wealth. Love guarantees you power.