Quotes About Insight

Give me a fruitful error any time, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections. You can keep your sterile truth for yourself.

Give me the fruitful error any time, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections. You can keep your sterile truth for yourself.

there is no way that you can know the taste of water unless you drink it or unless it has rained on you or unless you jump in the river.

I did direct two short movies. I learned many things, and one of the things I learned was that I am not a director. It has to be visceral, and it's not for me. I feel much more comfortable acting.

No one can cheat him; no one can outsmart him. Rhetoric has no effect on him; false compassion cannot confuse him. He is one who searches hearts and minds, and he knows your infidelity.

Know that there is good, and that there is evil. These two are not the same, and God does not want us to confuse them. He wants us to be able to tell the difference between the two, and to be wise and possess deep insights concerning goodness, but he does not want us to be skillful regarding how to devise and accomplish evil. For such to occur, we must be knowledgeable with the word of God.

Their minds are so feeble and blinded that they cannot perceive or understand true wisdom.

I have fought sixty battles, and I assure you that I have learned nothing from all of them that I did not know in the first.

The text we fall in love with is the one in which we never cease to learn what we already knew.

If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

To understand blue you must first understand yellow and orange

The simple minded know many things that the wise ignore

There are often beams in our eye that we know not of. Let us therefore ask that our eye may become single, for then we ourselves shall become wholly single.

I prefer painting people's eyes to cathedrals, for there is something in the eyes that is not in the cathedral, however solemn and imposing the latter may be — a human soul, be it that of a poor beggar or of a street walker, is more interesting to me.

O mesmo acontece com os homens, camponeses e mulheres; não é sempre que eles são interessantes, mas, quando se é paciente com eles, vemos tudo o que essas pessoas têm de Millet.

Millet nos legou a síntese do camponês e hoje, sim, temos Lhermitte, claro, há ainda alguns outros, Meunier... mas aprendemos hoje mais geralmente a ver os camponeses? Não, quase ninguém sabe produzir um.

Could it not be the case that if one loves something one sees it better and more truly than if one did not love it?

can you tell what goes on within by looking at what happens without? There may be a great fire in your soul, but no one ever comes to warm himself by it, all that passers-by can see is a little smoke coming out of the chimney and they walk on"_Page.70-71

Paul Gauguin's remark about his friend Van Gogh is not without interest: "Il oubliait même," wrote the famous painter of négresses, "d'écrire le hollandais, et comme on a pu voir par la publication de ses lettres à son frère, il n'écrivait jamais qu'en français, et cela admirablement, avec des 'Tant qu'à, Quant à,' à n'en plus finir."[1]

It is looking at things for a long time that ripens you and gives you a deeper meaning.

Good writing is emotionally honest but does not get stuck in the emotion.

Passage of time lends perspective to one's observations; perspective then leads to wisdom.

Happy the man who could search out the causes of things.