Quotes About Insight

That's what learning is. You suddenly understand something you understood all your life, but in a new way.

All profoundly original work looks ugly at first.

It is common to overlook what is near by keeping the eye fixed on something remote.

A good painter is to paint two main things, namely men and the working of man's mind.

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Some day they will know what I mean.

Anything which parents have not learned from experience they can now learn from their children.

The best prophet of the future is the past.

I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them.

No man was ever yet a great poet, without at the same time being a profound philosopher.

People only see what they are prepared to see.

Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough.

Prayer is a kind of calling home every day. And there can come to you a serenity, a feeling of at-homeness in God's universe, a peace that the world can neither give nor disturb, a fresh courage, a new insight, a holy boldness that you'll never, never get any other way.

A fox should not be of the jury at a goose's trial.

It isn't that they can't see the solution, it's that they can't see the problem.

You often get a better hold upon a problem by going away from it for a time and dismissing it from your mind altogether.

Every problem contains the seeds of its own solution.

Statistics are no substitute for judgement.

I shall always consider the best guesser the best prophet.

A psychiatrist is a man who goes to the Folies-Bergere and looks at the audience.

Psychoanalysis is confession without absolution.

Show me a man with both feet on the ground and I'll show you a man who can't put his pants on.

Truth has rough flavors if we bite it through.

Wisdom never kicks at the iron walls it can't bring down.