Quotes About Insight

Approaching human life from the neutral sea was beginning to make me more appreciative.

When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself.

Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreams.

The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it.

We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy -- at least until we have become as clever as they are.

He who understands the wise is wise already.

One of the greatest and also the commonest of faults is for men to believe that, because they never hear their shortcomings spoken of, or read about them in cold print, others can have no knowledge of them.

It is hardly to be believed how spiritual reflections when mixed with a little physics can hold people's attention and give them a livelier idea of God than do the often ill-applied examples of his wrath.

He possessed a great deal of philosophy, or of common sense that looked like it.

If you know how much reality is getting in, then you know a great deal about what a person sees to be true.

That's one of the benefits of working on big budget films. You work with people who have a lot of experience and you get to learn a lot.

A good book changes for you every few years because you are in a different place in your own life. That's a sign of a good novel. Not only will two different readers get something different but so will a single reader at different points in his life.

My writings are an exploration, and I think a lot of writers would tell you this, but in writing, you're not simply putting down things that are already known to you. You're actually discovering in the writing process, you're actually creating knowledge.

And I call it like I see it and my glasses on. But most of yall dont get the picture less the flash is on.

I call ya how I see ya.

Blind eyes could look at me and see the truth.

So keep your mouth closed and let your eyes listen.

Whats understood dont gotta be explained.

A lot of women don't know how to love because there's deep reasons for them not knowing how to love. And what I mean by deep reasons is deep and dark reasons.

Are you listening, little bird?

Someday, Dante, I will discover how your mind works

I just . . . knew, the way you know how to breathe or to pull your hand back from a hot stove.

With twenty-twenty hindsight I could solve every fucking problem, couldn't I?

Cynicism is an unpleasant way of telling the truth.