Quotes About Insight

Don't you think every face tells its own story? Like a book? More like a poem. If you study it long enough, you'll soon find its meaning.

Everything seems simpler from a distance.

It was, of course, a grand and impressive thing to do, to mistrust the obvious, and to pin one's faith in things which could not be seen!

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him discover it in himself.

Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty.

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.

We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.

I know what's wrong with me; and knowing your own flaws is the beginning of wisdom.

One reads books in order to gain the privilege of living more than one life. People who don't read are trapped in a mine shaft, even if they think the sun is shining.

One reads books in order to gain the privilege of living more than one life....

I've seen the truth, and it makes no sense.

Sometimes in order to understand what is right, we have to first recognize what is wrong.

Our Creed does not command us to be free. It commands us to be wise." - Altair

I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed.

I want everybody to be smart. As smart as they can be. A world of ignorant people is too dangerous to live in.

Sometimes it is easier to see the light when you stand partly in the darkness.

These are things that only dogs and women understand because we tap into the pain directly, we connect to pain directly from its source, and so it is at once brilliant and brutal and clear, like white-hot metal spraying out of a fire hose, we can appreciate the aesthetic while taking the worst of it straight in the face. Men, on the other hand, are all filters and deflectors and timed release.

You know," he said, "at some point you're going to realize that being a smart-ass isn't as much about being smart as it is about being an ass." "That's good," I said. "Did you read that in a fortune cookie?

We all play by the same rules. But some people spend more time reading those rules and figuring out how to make them work in their behalf.

You know, he said, at some point you're going to realize that being a smart-ass isn't about being smart as it is about being an ass.

You know," he said, "at some point you're going to realize that being a smart-ass isn't as much about being smart as it is about being an ass.

Hands are the windows to a man's soul.