Quotes About Insight

Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.

I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can do.

A wise man knows everything; a shrewd one, everybody.

A good drama critic is one who perceives what is happening in the theatre of his time. A great drama critic also perceives what is not happening.

Through the picture, I see reality. Through the word, I understand it.

The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.

True knowledge comes only through suffering.

Even if misfortune is only good for bringing a fool to his senses, it would still be just to deem it good for something.

Trouble brings experience, and experience brings wisdom.

Forget the times of your distress, but never forget what they taught you.

It is from the level of calamities ... that we learn impressive and useful lessons.

Mistakes are often the best teachers.

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Those things that hurt, instruct.

Pain is the root of knowledge.

The consumer is not a moron. She's your wife.

Good counsel has no price.

Many receive advice, only the wise profit by it.

The spiritual eyesight improves as the physical eyesight declines.

An old codger, rampant, and still learning.

O wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursel's as ithers see us!

Learning to draw is really a matter of learning to see - to see correctly - and that means a good deal more than merely looking with the eye.

Drawing is the discipline by which I constantly rediscover the world. I have learned that what I have not drawn, I have never really seen, and that when I start drawing an ordinary thing, I realize how extraordinary it is, sheer miracle.

Perspective is worth 80 I.Q. points.