Quotes About Insight

I wake up in the morning, walk downstairs, and just bang on the piano and write about what's going on in the world around me.

The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason: The Morning Daylight appears plainer when you put out your Candle.

What I couldn't help noticing was that I learned more about the novel in a morning by trying to write a page of one than I'd learned in seven years or so of trying to write criticism

Learn something today in order to make tomorrow a better today.

You get more insight as you get older, on everything. I kind of woke up one morning and was like, 'Oh I see what's happening, I get everything'. I woke up and was like, 'I get it, I'm a product'.

My father was a proctologist and my mother was an abstract artist, so that's how I view the world.

It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.

Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.

My mother is a professor of early childhood education. When I was two she would say she knew I was going to be an actor.

Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

Yes, the words of the Mother can be heard as clearly as we hear one another. But one requires a fine nerve to hear Mother's words.

There are but few proverbial sayings that are not true, for they are all drawn from experience itself, which is the mother of all sciences.

I believe there's no proverb but what is true; they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal mother of sciences.

Mothers have a habit of proving right except you don't find that out until you're the age your mother was when she gave you the advice.

Woo her not till thou hast seen her mother, for a score of years worketh wonders.

Ignorance is the mother of admiration.

Everyone always talks about how well mothers know their children. No one ever seems to notice how well children know their mothers.

Fear, indeed, is the mother of foresight.

I became a writer because I am the youngest of six children. I listen; I observe. I'm camouflaged as a moth. Mothers are unseen. It helps me write.

Experiment is the mother of knowledge.

How did you know Cassandra was the mother? (Wulf) I know lots of things when I apply myself. (Acheron)

His mother understood my illness immediately, that it was my world rather than myself that was diseased.

I'm your mother. I see all. Hear all. Know all.

Mother lode of learning.