Quotes About Insight

I'm trying to learn from various corners of the world.

As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.

I find that when I come upon something that I think is a historical revelation, I have the sort of adrenaline rush that I imagine a gambler gets in Las Vegas when he hits the jackpot. It's still tremendously exciting to me, and I think all of my peers in the business feel the same way.

Each of us finds his unique vehicle for sharing with others his bit of wisdom.

Politics itself is so unsexy, isn't it? But when the politics in creative works are really explored - not used as a vehicle - the results can be really interesting.

I think comedy is the perfect vehicle for that which is slightly beyond life.

Science fiction should not be dismissed as escapism. It is a profound vehicle for talking about social and political issues.

I got to pick the mind of a genius, and I realized why he was a genius. And I realized the man behind the veil or whatever you want to call it. Do you know what I mean? I got to see what makes Dr. Dre Dr. Dre, and I got to interpret that. It's hard to put it into words, so the only thing I know how to do is put it on the screen.

What having a child - and especially a daughter - has done is lifted more of the veil for me: allowed me to see things on another level compared to how I used to see them.

I'm a perceptive person. I know what's good and I don't venture into what's not good. I've discovered my own khazana. Everybody should.

Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen.

The best early-stage venture capital investments appear obvious in retrospect; however, very few of them are actually obvious when you make them.

You really need to travel to other major-league venues to understand what you're missing.

If you think of any past artist, there was something that they looked at that inspired them to make their most famous pieces, whether it be the 'Mona Lisa' or 'Venus Rising.'

As a journalist, I've been a professional watcher, picking up the body language and verbal tics that make us individuals and interesting to others.

Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.

After I'd produced about two dozen pen and ink drawings, one evening I decided that they needed poems to accompany them. I still have no idea where that notion came from, but it took me about two hours to produce verses for these creatures.

When you're babysitting a kid, all you're seeing is a version of them, a small dosage.

Sa do të doja të përhumbesha, të harrohesha, të flija. Por, nuk mundem, më merret fryma: ekzistenca më depërton nga të gjitha anët, nga sytë nga hunda, nga goja… Dhe në një çast, në një çast të vetëm, perdja griset, kuptova, pashë.

When you want to understand something you stand in front of it, alone, without help: all the past in the world is of no use. Then it disappears and what you wanted to understand disappears with it.

Il faut un double soleil pour éclairer le fond de la bêtise humaine.

Relationships between seemingly separate ideas can start to make their own whole when we stand at a distance, searching for patterns.

Texts are teachers.

Conclusions that echo an image or idea from the lead are powerful.