Quotes About Insight

A man can be known by his library better than by his house or dress.

It is easy enough to reject a story because you do not like what it says, but wiser to examine it first, to see what can be learned from it.

I wish to cup knowledge in my hand and drink it as one drinks water by the side of the stream.

First with the head and then with the heart.

The reader is always right

Everything has happened before; if you know what comes before, then you know what happens now.

First with the head then with the heart.

A firm's income statement may be likened to a bikini—what it reveals is interesting but what it conceals is vital.

If I believe I need something I don't have I'm insane.

People used to ask me if I was enlightened, and I would say, "I don't know anything about that. I'm just someone who knows the difference between what hurts and what doesn't.

A reader of mine is a deluxe reader, not because I'm so great but because in order to get to me you have to take a path through literature, not through some books bought out of curiosity at the bookstore. A reader of mine has to have read other things.

C. Rajagopalachari

knowledge, that is merely so much undigested information crammed into the mind, cannot instil virtue.

Poetry helps us to suffer more efficiently

In the past, my brain babbling at such length had meant there was something it either didn't want to think about--which things numbered in the dozens right now--or it was working out some extreme cleverness that would at any moment leap out and surprise me. Much to my dismay, nothing leapt out.

Much of my life appeared to be a lesson in not judging books by their covers.

When it comes to people--don't write about who you know, but what you know of human nature.

The most amazing discovery in the world is someone who understands what you're about without your having to go through your entire life history to explain it.

Merry sighed. "Once again, Andrew, you've opened my eyes. To what, I'm not sure.

a language that, all this time, we knew.

Knowing the songs - and I'm still learning - lets one envision birds you can hear but can't see. And as always, the ability to envision what is just out of sight is more important than merely seeing what's right in front of you.

The illegality of cannabis is outrageous, an impediment to full utilization of a drug which helps produce the serenity and insight, sensitivity and fellowship so desperately needed in this increasingly mad and dangerous world.

You have to know the past to understand the present.

Understanding is a kind of ecstasy