James Joyce
Novelist, Poet
"Shut your eyes and see."
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Insight
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Nhat Hanh
Zen Master, Author
"When you begin to see that your enemy is suffering, that is the beginning of insight."
Ramana Maharshi
Spiritual Teacher
"'I Am' is the name of God, God is none other than the Self."
Bell Hooks
Author, Feminist, Social Activist
"The true teacher is within us. A good teacher is someone who can help you to go back and touch the true teacher within, because you already have the insight within you."
George Orwell
Writer, Journalist
"The best books... are those that tell you what you know already."
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"Insight without action is worthless."
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"Knowledge is the rediscovering of our own insight."
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"The only way to win is to work, work, work, work, and hope to have a few insights"
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"Instead of insight, maybe all a man gets is strength to wander for a while."
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"Come on. I don't have any problem violating my own insights in practice."
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"There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight."
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"Schooling deprived of religious insights is wretched education."
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"Liberation exists- and you will never be liberated."
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"Man will become better when you show him what he is like."
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"Freedom can never be comprehended, nor even can insight into it be gained."
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"Knowing many things doesn't teach insight."
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"It is astonishingly beautiful and interesting, how thought is absent when you have an insight. Thought cannot have an insight."
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"I was always 'awake'...Some part of me clamoring for NEW insights and NEW ways to make the world a better place."
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"What else is nature but God?"
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"We must be both rational and intellectual, both analytic and imaginative, utilizing both statistics and insight."
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"Of course language is not an infallible guide, but it contains, with all its defects, a good deal of stored insight and experience."
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"The characters get challenged. Through getting challenged, the character arrives at insights or discovers potentials that he or she didn't know they had."
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"Insight, untested and unsupported, is an uncertain guarantee of the truth."
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"Zen insight is not our awareness, but Being's awareness of itself in us."
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"Our searches for numerical order lead as often to terminal nuttiness as to profound insight."
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