Quotes About Insight

Look, there is nothing you can say about this show that I don't already know

Acid gave me a clinical, unblinking look at madness, and I discovered I wasn't brave enough to be insane.

I don't think being a comedian gives you any fucking insight into what makes people laugh.

The most prolific teachers of critical thinking in my lifetime are stand-up comedians

Don't be afraid to be weird for being wise.

Behind every great story there's always another story.

If we're honest with ourselves, most of us know the one thing we lack.

You know the difference between an asshole and an anus?" He spoke from the side of his mouth. "What's that?" "An anus can't say 'that went well.

no man has any sense till age thirty-five and damn few afterwards . . .

I have a wonderful respect for old people.

I don't understand a thing about this world: about people, and why they do the things they do. The more I find out, the more I uncover, the more I know, the less I understand.

Still, there is something emboldening about being awake when the rest of the world is sleeping. Like I know something they don't.

That's what you do, right? When you're readin. You're seeing what it's like for other people.

and it's right on the spot. In fact, it

We experience a discomfort that may be foreign to others, but that pain opens up a world of beauty. Wouldn't you think?

In seeking truth, you have to get both sides of a story." – WALTER CRONKITE One

The German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer cleverly made this point in 1819: "A person of talent hits a target that no one else can hit; a person of genius hits a target that no one else can see.

Steve Jobs was quoted in Business Week as saying "A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them.

The son of Mark Twain recounted that his father paced while he worked: "Some of the time when dictating, Father walked the floor . . . then it always seemed as if a new spirit had flown into the room."24 Bill Gates is a pacer, too. "It helps him organize his mind and see what others can't see," says his wife, Melinda.

Washing machines, vacuums, drills, pumps, and electric fans, among other things, are still powered by Tesla's perambulatory insight.

As Picasso said with his typical oxymoronic wit, "It takes a very long time to become young.

One part of knowledge consists in being ignorant of such things as are not worthy to be known.

If love is blind, then maybe a blind person that loves has a greater understanding of it.

You have to live in the world to say anything meaningful about it.