Quotes About Insight

All I know about humour is that I don't know anything about it.

Good judgement is the result of experience ... Experience is the result of bad judgement.

When we learn new words and ideas, and then begin to see them everywhere, the world is suddenly more legible and more vivid. Language reveals to us what was always there, but to what before we may have simply passed over, we now feel intimately connected.1 —Meara Sharma

Once a photograph of the Earth, taken from the outside, is available... a new idea as powerful as any in history will be let loose.

I feel so strongly that deep and simple is far more essential than shallow and complex.

Discovering the truth about ourselves is a lifetime's work, but it's worth the effort.

I'd like to work with any actress from whom I can learn-one who has had many experiences with many directors and is willing to share some of her knowledge with me.

Wouldn't it be better to avoid the thrust of the dagger which, I knew, with the atavistic insight of a Jewish child, would in a few minutes be plunged into my heart?

Il faut du temps pour faire se rejoindre "la" et "sa" vérité du temps. - Vandoosler

non cresce niente sul magniloquio, sul parviloquio o sul soliloquio. Su che cosa cresce qualcosa? Sul riflettiloquio.

Qué aporta la literatua: escuchar una voz humana.

To be wise is to be eternally curious.

To understand everything is to forgive everything.

Satori (enlightenment) is described as nothing seeing itself as such.

A book is a book only when it is read; otherwise it is a bundle of gathered sheets of soiled paper.

The greatest and noblest pleasure which men can have in this world is to discover new truths; and the next is to shake off old prejudices.

A different language is a different vision of life.

If we were all as wise as we should be, we would have no stories to tell

Proverbs are the literature of reason.

I am a terrible judge of character' "I don't think so. You just need to take note of FACTS from the outset, not feelings.

Only one mountain can know the core of another mountain.

Jeg får vel ta meg en kikk på ham. Forfattere er alltid litt tvilsomme personer, men jeg vet nok hvordan jeg skal ta den slags typer.

A writer doesn't solve problems. He allows them to emerge.

The meaning of existence is existence, which insight, once accepted and affirmed, makes existence unbearable.