Remarkable visions and genuine insights are always met with resistance.
The human attitude of which classical music is the expression is always the same; it is always based on the same kind of insight into life and strives for the same kind of victory over blind change. Classical music as gesture signifies knowledge of the tragedy of the human condition, affirmation of human destiny, courage, cheerful serenity.
Perhaps the difference between a professor and a bus driver is that the professor can say stupid things with complete authority while the bus driver is not authorized to make brilliant insights.
Man relates to material things through direct insight rather than reason.
Any supreme insight is a metaphor.
Something is funny, most of all, because it's true, and because the velocity of insight into this truth exceeds our normal standards. Something is funny because it's outside our accepted boundary of decorum. Something is funny because it defies our expectations. Something is funny because it offers a temporary reprieve from the hardship of seeing the world as it actually is. Something is funny because it is able to suggest gently that even the worst of our circumstances and sins is subject to eventual mercy.
It's probably your fiercest critics - not your compatriots - who have the sharpest, most resonant insights.
To understand ourselves and our life is the point of insight meditation: to understand and to be free.
Freedom can never be comprehended, nor even can insight into it be gained.
People sometimes are so confident in their flawed beliefs that they get stuck - fixated - and as a result are blinded to insights that are right in front of them.
Any teacher can study books, but books do not necessarily bring wisdom, nor that human insight essential to consummate teaching skills.
I believe that the data will set you free. At the end of the day, it’s about how do you turn those pieces of information into insights that will improve business.
Martin Luther King was a human being with a brilliant mind, a powerful heart, and insight, and courage and also with a sense of humor. So he was accessible.
I've always written in first person. It gives the readers more insight.
The opposition of instinct and reason is mainly illusory. Instinct, intuition, or insight is what first leads to the beliefs which subsequent reason confirms or confutes; but the confirmation, where it is possible, consists, in the last analysis, of agreement with other beliefs no less instinctive. Reason is a harmonizing, controlling force rather than a creative one. Even in the most purely logical realms, it is insight that first arrives at what is new.
I wasn't working much. So I focused on studying, and I really learned what it means to be an actor. And here I was on Jonny Quest,working with all these great people from back in the golden age of Hollywood, who came up doing radio. These were journeymen, working actors. It made me proud, and gave me some insight into what acting was really about if you weren't a star.
One should have insight into this world of dreams that passes in the twinkling of an eye.
The authentic insight and experience of any human soul, were it but insight and experience in hewing of wood and drawing of water, is real knowledge, a real possession and acquirement.
Characterization requires self-knowledge, insight into human nature . . . it is more than impersonation.
Time-honoured insights are often trivialised as cliches.
A huge insight was the power of simply telling employees the truth. If things aren’t going well, tell them.
The great conservative insight is that order is really hard to achieve. It’s really precious, and it’s really easy to lose.
It seems that if one is working from the point of view of getting beauty in one's equations, and if one has really a sound insight, one is on a sure line of progress.
Sometimes you have intuitive insight about how you think things are going to be, and you write that. Other times you fantasize completely, which has nothing to do with predicting the future.
Finding out what particular insights mean to people in other traditions enables us not only to respect but to love the wisdom of other religions.
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