Quotes About Insight

Self-knowledge liberates us from the frustration of ignorance, while simultaneously nurturing and supporting our capacity for intelligence. Objectivity

The idea that seeing life means going from place to place and doing a great variety of obvious things is an illusion natural to dull minds.

People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people.

I want you to look and think. I want every one to look and think. Half the misery in the world comes first from not looking, and then from not thinking. And I do not want you to be miserable.

I had a little insight into life that most kids probably didn't have. My mother was a schoolteacher, and my father was a social worker. Through his eyes I saw the underside of society.

I love to lose myself in other men's minds.

He who hath not a dram of folly in his mixture hath pounds of much worse matter in his composition.

How sickness enlarges the dimension of a man's self to himself!

I love to lose myself in other men's minds.... Books think for me.

I love to lose myself in other men's minds. When I am not walking, I am reading, I cannot sit and think. Books think for me

I love to lose myself in other men's minds

You know what Oscar Wilde said, ma'am? He said, "nothing that is worth knowing can be taught". Nothing personal, ma'am... Carry on.

Going to our school is an education in itself which is not to be confused with actually getting an education.

If life were a camera, I'd have the lens cap on.

What's this? That little red-haired girl dropped her pencil... Gee... It's got teeth marks all over it... She nibbles her pencil... She's human!

Cartooning will destroy you; it will break your heart.

She nibbles her pencil... She's human!

Of all the offspring of Time, Error is the most ancient, and is so old and familiar an acquaintance, that Truth, when discovered, comes upon most of us like an intruder, and meets the intruder's welcome.

Paranoia is just a kind of awareness, and awareness is just a form of love.

Thinking is stinking.

Sometimes good judgement comes from experience, and a lotta that comes from bad judgement.

Puzzles forced me to look at something from several angles before I moved on, to look again, and again, and possibly again because each piece—no matter how small or seemingly insignificant—was critical to the whole.

Sometimes good judgment comes from experience, and a lotta that comes from bad judgment.

there's a big difference between being judgmental and making a judgment.