Quotes About Insight

I thought I knew a lot about music. Then you start digging and the deeper you go, the more there is.

I like a lot of old films, I like a lot old music, and a lot of it has to do with the fact that I like the idea of knowing what happens before, so that I can understand it.

If you're alive, you have all the experience necessary to understand classical music.

A little bit if listening with a passable ear will get an awful lot of messages anywhere.

It's entertaining to watch somebody break my music down or explain what he thinks I was thinking during the process of making these records. Because... he has no idea.

In music, all hearts are revealed to us.

Either your understanding of the meaning of music is there from the beginning or it is not.

Still, to this day I go back and listen to music that inspires me to write now

When you are listening to music it is better to cover your eyes than your ears.

Privilege blinds, because it's in its nature to blind. Don't let it blind you too often. Sometimes you will need to push it aside in order to see clearly.

Nature is always hinting at us. It hints over and over again. And suddenly we take the hint.

Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it

Those things that nature denied to human sight, she revealed to the eyes of the soul.

If we are to learn to improve the quality of the decisions we make, we need to accept the mysterious nature of our snap judgments.

We have had bird's-eye views seen by mind's eye imperfectly. Now we will have nothing less than the tracings of nature itself, reflected on the plate.

It is the true nature of mankind to learn from mistakes, not from example.

One learns more from listening than speaking.And both the wind and the people who continue to live close to nature still have much to tell us which we cannot hear within university walls.

We must remember that knowledge of one's own deep nature is also simultaneously knowledge of human nature in general.

Only those who have felt the knife can understand the wound, only the jeweller knows the nature of the jewel.

Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature, understand them thoroughly.

True wit is nature to advantage dressed; What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.

Golf gives you an insight into human nature, your own as well as your opponent's.

The source of all light is in the eye.

We must go and see for ourselves.