Quotes About Insight

Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.

I was only photographing in words the reality of it all.

Turgenev was a very serious fellow but he could make me laugh because a truth first encountered can be very funny. When someone else's truth is the same as your truth, and he seems to be saying it just for you, that's great.

great books are the ones we need

Cats tell me without effort all that there is to know.

Genius could be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way, or even to say a simple thing in a simpler way.

I like to prowl ordinary places and taste the people- from a distance.

Experience can dull. With most men experience is a series of mistakes; the more experience you have the less you know.

Sometimes things are just what they seem to be and that's all there is to it. The best interpreter of the dream is the dreamer.

warm light alone tonight in this house, alone with 6 cats who tell me without effort all that there is to know.

You know, doctor, wisdom comes at a hell of an hour—when youth is gone, the storm is over and the girls have gone home.

The masses are always wrong - Wisdom is doing everything the crowd does not do. All you do is reverse the totality of their learning and you have the heaven they're looking for.

You'll never be a writer if you hide from reality.

i'm easy to understand even when i don't understand myself...

Simplicity is always the secret, to a profound truth, to doing things, to writing, to painting. Life is profound in its simplicity.

we know so little, we know so much, we don't know enough.

a man can be old and a fool many are a man can be young and wise few are

Turguenev era um homem muito sério mas fazia-me rir porque a verdade quando é encontrada pela primeira vez pode ser divertida. Quando a verdade de alguém é semelhante à tua verdade, e parece que está apenas a dizê-la a ti, é fantástico.

The poem has some value, believe me. It keeps you from going totally mad.

Maybe if you could get away from the obvious often enough, you wouldn't become so obvious yourself.

sometimes I think I see them – say a certain old man sitting on a certain bench in a certain way or a quick face going the other way in a passing automobile

It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.

But by fusing the best of both sides, a kind of intertwining consciousness arises—grandmother and granddaughter wisdom emerging from shared hope, relieved of emotions tainted by control and guilt and anger.

You have to get your mind right, and always look way down the road, not at your feet.