Quotes About Insight

But there are many things in life that become different if you take a long look at them

Every problem has a solution. Sometimes it just takes a long time to find the solution even it it's right in front of your nose.

There were no books in the room as far as I could see. I should have known better.

they knew, from the prism of their experience

The best books are like complicated surgery--first you can't get your head out of them, and then you can't get them out of your head.

Without the dark, everything would be light, and you would never know if you needed a lightbulb.

Do you ever make silly mistakes? It is one of my very few creative activities.

My mom knows pretty well how I see her.

Böcker ska blänka som solar och gnistra som tomtebloss. Medan vi läser böckerna läser böckerna oss. Kan böckerna läsa människor? Det kan de förstås! Hur skulle de annars veta allting om oss?

If people take any notice of what we say, we say we've been through the drug scene, man, and there's nothing like being straight.

The reason there's so much ignorance is that those who have it are so eager to share it.

Nissan is designing a car that will read the driver's mind. I already know what I'm going to do. I want a car that will read the other guy's mind.

I'll give you the four-one-one.

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.

But, when you've swallowed what's stuck in your throat, tell me who's the first to notice the rain in this part of the world.

Busy thyself with the secrets of wisdom and knowledge, thus thou shalt overcome the fear of the morrow in thee.

Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

One cannot refute what one has not thoroughly understood.

If you want to succeed in the world, you don't have to be much cleverer than other people. You just have to be one day earlier.

Everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.

The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life.

We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.

Everything I know, I know because of love.