Quotes About Insight

The only animal from which humans have nothing to learn, in fact, is the sheep. Humans have already learned everything the sheep's got to teach.

I'm in love, truly, madly, deeply in love with perception.

gradually understood that I wasn't practicing to play the guitar, but playing the guitar to learn about practicing.

1) "school isn't where the real learning happens." (3).

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Anybody who is experiencing something is more expert in it than the experts.

What we're told about this country is way too limited by generalities, sound bites, and even the supposedly enlightened idea that there are two sides to every question. In fact, many questions have three or seven or a dozen sides.

I began to understand with a terrible sureness that we teach what we need to learn and write what we need to know.

Like the spider spinning its web, we create much of the outer world from within ourselves. The universe is a joint product of the observer and the observed.

I think we each come out of the womb with some unique way of looking at the world and if we don't express it, we loose faith in ourselves.

It also reminds me of an organizing principle: Anybody who is experiencing something is more expert in it than the experts.

I'm not sure we can understand another country if we don't understand our own.

I'm also now immune to politicians who say, "I've traveled the length and breadth of this great land, and I know…" I've traveled more than any of them, and I don't know.

I like to believe that the road is sharpening my mind and lengthening my life with surprise.

I soon developed myopia and a firm belief that people in books were not only more interesting but more real than people outside of books.

one writerly habit was describing everything I did, no matter how absorbing or how trivial, as if I were standing outside myself and watching.

the discovery that ordinary people are smart, smart people are ordinary

the clearest view is always from the bottom. Kennedy

We learn where we know the least.

People who are experiencing a problem are the most likely to know its solution.

there is no better moment in life than finding the right word.

Maybe U.S. policy makers should talk to taxi drivers.

if you've experience discrimination in one form, you're more likely to recognise it in another.

He let in the light.