Quotes About Insight

Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers. The sagacity that advises us to look before we leap promptly warns us that if we hesitate we are lost; that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but out of sight, out of mind.

A liberal is a man who is right most of the time, but he's right too soon.

When you're playing someone who drinks a lot, it's not that interesting to play that condition because as soon as you know that, you got all the information you're going to get from it. It's like hitting the same note on the piano over and over again.

Many sophisticated, intelligent people lack wisdom and common sense.

I'm not sophisticated when it comes to politics, when it comes to journalism.

I don't think that I'm that sophisticated. Maybe I'm not aware of it, I don't know.

Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.

Each day, as you get older, there is a new perspective on life. It's a progression of some sort.

It's difficult to imagine the power that you're going to have when so many different sorts of data are available.

Usually, the music inspires the lyrics. The lyrics just sort of fall off like a bunch of crumbs from the melody. That's all I want them to be - crumbs. I don't want to work any kind of fabricated message.

In the past, I'd sort of know before Ozzy sang something, what he was going to sing. I'd know what sort of way a melody was going to go 'cause of the way he'd approach it.

It's a funny thing. You sort of never figure it out with acting. You're always learning.

God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.

Knowledge, may it be said, is higher than magic and is more to be sought. It is quite possible to see what is happening and yet not know what is forward, for while seeing is believing, it does not follow that either seeing or believing is knowing.

You don't that often see writers being sought out when there are matters of great moment to discuss. And I think that's a loss.

As time has gone by, I have looked more and more like Paul Revere than the alarmist my critics have sought to portray.

I get quite fearful about interviews, so I sought advice from other actors.

The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions.

Age don't mean nothing. I'm an old soul.

That is what the intuition is for: it is the direct messenger of the soul.

A short film is not a shortened feature film. It has a soul of its own.

You can see into people's souls through their eyes.

But remember, I am no politician, and no seer into souls.

What I really love about philosophers and psychologists is that they sound smart.