Quotes About Insight

If we observe the nature, we well learn too many things which human kind may never teach us.

Drawing makes you look at the world more closely. It helps you to see what you're looking at more clearly. Did you know that?"I said nothing."What colour's a blackbird?" she said."Black""Typical!

Every step of the walk unburdens us of what we have just seen and thought while it simultaneously thrusts us into the previously unknown.

Nature is the my best teacher.

To understand the nature of the people one must be a prince, and to understand the nature of the prince, one must be of the people

She has no interest in human quarrels, for they are often petty and always pointless.

Look at 'em, ' he said. 'Goddam fools.' 'Who?' said Ginnie. 'I don't know. Anybody.

I love humanity, surprisingly, as I observe 21st century with hawk eyed vision, I realize the more I love humanity the less I love Human as an individual.

If we deny ourselves the unique human faculty of learning from others' mistakes, we deny oneself the chance to be a human.

Speak to the earth and it shall teach thee.

If you can't sit in a cafe quietly and be ignored, how can you observe human nature and write a story?

Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

Our vision is more obstructed by what we think we know than by our lack of knowledge.

The mind is like the stomach. It is not how much you put into it that counts, but how much it digests...

For a woman, a son offers the best chance to know the mysterious male existence.

Twitter allowed me to talk about parenting in short snippets and find out what I really wanted to say about it, which is that I'm a dad who had no idea what he's doing.

Kids are flat-out freaking hilarious if you are paying attention. Not just my kid, but every kid.

Guidance is not attained except with knowledge and correct direction is not attained except with patience.

Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.

Sometimes one waits too long for the perfect moment before snapping the picture. You never realize that you needed was to change perspective.

Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.

Patience and discipline can make you look foolishly out of touch until they make you look prudent and even prescient

Trying to understand is like straining through muddy water. Be still and allow the mud to settle.