Quotes About Insight

If you search and search and stop searching, then ultimately you'll find what you need. It is the experience of living.

Ultimately, the best speakers are the ones who have put 10,000 hours into listening.

It's kind of chased away a few demons for me and, um, it's educated me a little bit more.

You can't know what it's like to be a major league umpire unless you were a major league umpire.

'The Names' is a story about a woman who might feel that she's in a kind of maze. She's unable to find her way forward or out because she can't see the whole picture.

Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

I learned to think about religion, race and sex through the complex and often unattractive medium of jokes.

Just as our brains fill in the details of an image our eyes record only roughly, so, too, do our brains employ tricks we are unaware of to fill in details about people we don't know intimately.

People have motives and thoughts of which they are unaware.

The films I enjoy seeing are those that reveal lives I was unaware of... in different cultures or whatever.

My writing is inspired by just about everything, yet I am unaware of so much of the process.

Tricks you need to transform something which appears fantastic, unbelievable into something plausible, credible, those I learned from journalism. The key is to tell it straight. It is done by reporters and by country folk.

Humour has to have a huge nugget of truth to be funny. You cannot laugh at something unbelievable. Whenever I say something on a lighter note, I am basically unwrapping the truth from a different perspective, and that makes it funny.

Billy Jones, positionally, is unbelievable. He's not the fastest guy but he makes up for it by being positionally sound, so I really tried to focus and absorb where he would be in certain situations and just tried to add that in my game.

Now this foreknowledge cannot be elicited from spirits; it cannot be obtained inductively from experience, nor by any deductive calculation.

The mind of a general ought to resemble and be as clear as the field-glass of a telescope.

And once he had seen this, he could never again see it otherwise, just as we cannot reconstruct an illusion once it has been explained.

When the Special Theory of Relativity began to germinate in me, I was visited by all sorts of nervous conflicts... I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion.

Foreknowledge cannot be gotten from ghosts and spirits, cannot be had by analogy, cannot be found out by calculation. It must be obtained from people, people who know the conditions of the enemy.

Bad ages to live through are good ages to learn from.

From defilement can come much wisdom

The study of scriptures is a weapon of war.

Do not avert your eyes.It is important that you see this.It is important that you feelthis.

You must become your enemy to truly understand him.