Quotes About Insight

My goal is to create a therapy of ideas, to try to bring in new ideas so that we can see the same old problems differently.

Writing is a really good first step toward that goal of knowing yourself.

You can say any fool thing to a dog, and the dog will give you this look that says, `My God, you're RIGHT! I NEVER would've thought of that!'

Had I been present at the creation, I would have given some useful hints for the better ordering of the universe.

An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

This is an age in which one cannot find common sense without a search warrant.

A poet must need be before his own age, to be even with posterity.

Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.

The veracity which increases with old age is not far from folly.

Old age deprives the intelligent man only of qualities useless to wisdom.

Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age.

The height of ability consists in a thorough knowledge of the real value of things, and of the genius of the age in which we live.

Genius has no youth, but starts with the ripeness of age and old experience.

When the age is in, the wit is out.

It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.

A good old man, sir. He will be talking. As they say, when the age is in, the wit is out.

Consider what you have in the smallest chosen library: a company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked out of all civil countries in a thousand years.... The thought which they did not uncover to their bosom friend is here written out in transparent words to us, the strangers of another age.

You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do.

You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by the way he eats jelly beans.

They say the seeds of what we will do are in all of us, but it always seemed to me that in those who make jokes in life the seeds are covered with better soil and with a higher grade of manure.

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

To me, life is like the back nine in golf. Sometimes you play better on the back nine. You may not be stronger, but hopefully you're wiser. And if you keep most of your marbles intact, you can add a note of wisdom to the coming generation.

On cable TV they have a weather channel - 24 hours of weather. We had something like that where I grew up. We called it a window.

It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.