Quotes About Insight

We need more windows for the houses. And for men, more reason!

Your past is always useful to you: If you are happy with your past, you get power from it; if you are unhappy with your past, you take lesson from it!

The eye with which I see God is the same eye with which God sees me.

W]e must come into a transformed knowing, an unknowing which comes not from ignorance but from knowledge.

If my eye is to discern colour, it must itself be free from all colour.

And so in my view the most important thing of all is that we should give ourselves up entirely to God whenever he allows anything to befall us, whether insult, tribulation or any other kind of suffering, accepting it with joy and gratitude and allowing God to guide us all the more rather than seeking these things out ourselves.

But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.

remember one day when we were out shooting on location, I said to him, "Slim, you've made a thousand movies. I've only made two. Give me some advice." He said, "Well, Mel, whenever you get a chance—sit down. Directing takes a lot out of you and you're too busy to notice how tired you are.

right down." I

In ciò che non ha voluto essere lo riconosco.

As the nineteenth-century philosopher Henry David Thoreau put it, "All perception of truth is the detection of an analogy.

They where like so many of the adults around us, content to pretend that all was well....but we knew better

You know what? You didn't do anything wrong. I did. It's this dumb thing I do. I look into things and see more than I'm supposed to.

the greatest weapon against big stupid men was a sharp mind.

One day" came. Because finally I understood.

Best way to find the weakness of the enemy is to understand their ways.

These people have history and I crave history. I crave someone knowing me so well that they can tell what I'm thinking.

When one is silent, those around speak even more, my lord.

He held her against him and for once he understood what she had felt every day that he had known her

There was this time when I looked at a picture and thought it was a man with horns, but when I stepped up to study it I could see it was actually a butterfly with wings standing up straight. That's what happens when you stop looking at things from far away. My advice… look at whatever you're scared of from a different angle. Look at it up really close.

and his face is so close to mine that it's like he can see inside my soul

line deepening her already

With so much sky and so much river, you couldn't help seeing the big picture. It was what you already knew, but crowding into the subway or rushing to a movie, you only saw it for a second, and close up. Now I took a good long look. I'd always heard you couldn't see stars in Manhattan because of all the lights. But here they all were. Here was my night in shining armor.

But even the bad stuff in life can teach you something, shape you.