Quotes About Insight

One must always try to see the truth of a situation - it makes things universal.

His ignorance seemed to widen with everything he read.

She had a great many opinions, but taken together they did not add up to a point of view.

The profoundly humorous writers are humorous because they are responsive to the hopeless, uncouth, concatenations of life.

All good science emerges from an imaginative conception of what might be true.

There is only one art, whose sole criterion is the power, the authenticity, the revelatory insight, the courage and suggestiveness with which it seeks its truth. Thus, from the standpoint of the work and its worth it is irrelevant to which political ideas the artist as a citizen claims allegiance, which ideas he would like to serve with his work or whether he holds any such ideas at all.

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Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point only then can he look beyond it. It is obviously impossible to get around it, jump over it, or simply avoid it.

side trips have been as important to my life as the main voyages. Maybe more important.

Remember, if you hold something close enough, you lose your ability to see it.

The temple of truth has never suffered so much from woodpeckers on the outside as from termites within.

I learned a lot from that first record and I learned a lot from my experiences touring, but really the biggest education I got over the past two years was learning the importance of arrangements.

You keep learning all the time.

The power of sadness has always amazed me.

There's more truth in comedy than in tragedy.

The great thing about knowing you're wrong is the moment you realize it, you're right.

Understanding precedes peace.

It is better not to have taken on the weight of a man or woman who has seen many winters, winters that rob the eyes of their strength.

Oftentimes, the First Noble Truth is misquoted as "All life is suffering," but that is an inaccurate and misleading reflection of the Buddha's insight. He did not teach that life is constant misery, nor that you should expect to feel pain and unhappiness at all times. Rather, he proclaimed that suffering is an unavoidable reality of ordinary human existence that is to be known and responded to wisely.

Love -- not dim and blind but so far-seeing that it can glimpse around corners, around bends and twists and illusion; instead of overlooking faults love sees through them to the secret inside.

Not every puzzle is intended to be solved. Some are in place to test your limits. Others are, in fact, not puzzles at all...

A tornado of thought is unleashed after each new insight. This in turn results in an earthquake of assumptions. These are natural disasters that re-shape the spirit.

Desire is like fog on a bathroom mirror -- its presence incites you to wipe the mirror, and see yourself clearly again.

Every story needs to be worth telling.