Quotes About Insight

We learn something every day, and lots of times its that what we learned the day before was wrong.

A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at will change.

Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward.

View life as a continuous learning experience.

You cannot find knowledge by rearranging your ignorance.

No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

To see the good things of this life, it took me a long time to discover with every philosophical thought I had.

The most fundamental tragedy of my life is that the ones who I see do not exist and the one who exists I do not see.

We learn not in the school, but in life

In my plays I want to look at life - at the commonplace of existence-as if we had just turned a corner and run into it for the first time.

When I'm living in the world of luxury and celebrity, which is where I found myself for a large part of my life, it's a walk-on part. Not a vital necessity, like it is for so many people. I enjoy it but I can see right through it!

Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what you already know, and you'll see the way to fly.

Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.

Access to the Vedas is the greatest privilege this century may claim over all previous centuries.

My function in life was to render clear what was already blindingly conspicuous

For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men lived and worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.

Older and wiser voices can help you find the right path, if you are only willing to listen.

Your distress about life might mean you have been living for the wrong reason, not that you have no reason for living.

You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time.

All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.

Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled This could change your life.

That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.