Neal Brennan Quotes

They only babble who practise not reflection.

There may be men who act without understanding why. I do not. To listen much, pick out the good and follow it; to see much and ponder it: this comes next to understanding.

Every now and then, I have a deep thought.

I don't really take a step back too often to see what's going on.

My earliest experiences in meditation were in a context of intensive retreats.

The foolish reject what they see and not what they think; the wise reject what they think and not what they see.

I'm the kind of person where I always digest everything around me.

I look like I'm not listening, but I'm actually listening. I like listening to everything, observing everybody, just taking everything in, and then, in my mind, figuring out what's good for me and what's bad for me.

We need to discern what it is that requires reflection in our lives and in what we read and how we read it.

One never lives so intensely as when one has been thinking hard.

You're thinking about something, my dear, and that makes you forget to talk. I can't tell you just now what the moral of that is, but I shall remember it in a bit." "Perhaps it hasn't one," Alice ventured to remark. "Tut, tut, child!" said the Duchess. "Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.

Mirrors would do well to reflect a little more before sending back images.

Wise is the man who does not disdain any character and instead, examining him with a searching look, plumbs him to the very main-springs of his being.

When you pay attention to boredom it gets unbelievably interesting.

People are generally amazed that I would take an interest in any form that would require me to stop talking for three hours.

I've been blessed with a good head on my shoulders and quite a good ability of discernment. I can see through people.

Contemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them.

Know, thou, that the lines that live are turned out of a furrowed brow.

There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.

When one cannot appraise out of one's own experience, the temptation to blunder is minimized, but even when one can, appraisal seems chiefly useful as appraisal of the appraiser.

In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate.

In the quiet moments, the discoveries are made.

Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.

The best rules to form a young man, are, to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one's own opinions, and value others that deserve it.

Never be afraid to sit a while and think.