Quotes About Insight

I think reading a good book makes one modest. When you see the marvelous insight into human nature which a truly great book shows, it is bound to make you feel small--like looking at the Big Dipper on a clear night, or seeing the winter sunrise when you go out to collect the morning eggs. And anything that makes you feel small is mighty good for you.

Yeah, it's odd when you look back at your own work. Some filmmakers don't look back at their work at all. I look at my work a lot, actually. I feel like I learned something while looking at stuff I've done in terms of what I'm going to do in the future, mistakes I've made and things at work or what have you.

The audience knows the truth, the world is simple. It's miserable, solid all the way through. But if you could fool them, even for a second, then you can make them wonder, and then you got to see something really special.

Wise? No, I simply learned to think.

Until we invent telepathy, books are our best choice for understanding the rest of humanity.

Things aren't ever what they seem to be when you first look at them. What's important is that you keep your mind wide open and try to understand what's going on from a lot of different angles.

The truth is always simpler than you can imagine.

The young, in their innocence, are often wise and capable of teaching the old.

It is gaol that finally reveals to me the beauty of Shakespeare, the spirit in his words, the jaw-dropping audacity of his language.

Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it.

A well frog knows nothing of the ocean for it is bound by its space. The Spring insect knows nothing of the Winter because it is bound to a single season.

If you have insight, you use your inner eye, your inner ear, to pierce to the heart of things, and have no need of intellectual knowledge.

Once you've gotten the meaning, you can forget the words.

well in that case lets get this knight right. it means to understand him.

What makes a child gifted and talented may not always be good grades in school, but a different way of looking at the world and learning.

People who talk about their dreams are actually trying to tell you things about themselves they'd never admit in normal conversation.

Dr.Chaudry Abdul Majid

From a personal standpoint, in my fifty years of serious study of the Bible, obviously I have had to revise my own perspectives on a number of occasions. However

I think you can learn from history.

Wisdom is knowing what to do with what you know.

The lure of starting big is pervasive. For many organizations, it's so hard to get an innovation through all the approval processes that there simply isn't the energy to bring more than one idea to market. Sometimes, a CEO decides that he has an insight, and the whole organization mobilizes behind that one idea, rather than place several smaller bets. But it's crucial to Start Small.

Nature herself makes the wise man rich.

History,' Mari muttered, as if she'd overheard his thoughts. 'Why do we need to know what happened before we were born?' 'So hopefully we get smarter and don't make the same mistakes again.

You look like a boy who has eaten the fruit of the tree of knowledge and doesn't like the taste.