Quotes About Insight

A big secret to life is when you learn that learning is just as entertaining as entertainment, but with long term benefits.

Truth is an acquired taste.

Sight is seeing with the eyes; vision is seeing with the mind.

History can teach us so much, and yet we seem to learns so little.

Knowledge is understanding universals; wisdom is the ability to recognize universal from the presented particulars.

We are all fools when one wise man appears.

You cant change what you dont understand.

The only true vision comes not from God but from the inmost recesses of the human mind.

Don't you hate it when somebody knows you better than you know yourself?

Self-knowledge can be painful, but not half so damaging as self-ignorance.

The wise are not wise because they make no mistakes. They are wise because they correct their mistakes as soon as they recognize them.

You highbrows writing on movies are nuts! In order to write about movies you must first make them.

All great writers are actors, even merely competent ones are. They have the actor's capacity for getting inside the skins of their leading characters and transfiguring them- whatever they may be, even murderers- with what they can give of themselves. They do that quite as much as actors do.

El amor, a quien pintan ciego, es vidente y perspicaz porque el amante ve cosas que el indiferente no ve y por eso ama

We must also and always be discerning about the spirit of the age in any generation, which today means squarely facing the seductions of technique.

We live in an age in which the overwhelming majority of people appear to be comfortable with their myopia.

With the deepest things in life, there is always more to knowing than knowing will ever know, so the deepest knowledge must be learned in life, from experience, and under a master.

I hope I meet lots of people with lovely eyes.

A good book is always good, no matter how many times you've already read it.

Real thought takes courage more than intelligence.

Kitap okuma denilen ?ey benden kopar?l?p al?n?rsa, hiçbir hayat deneyimi olmayan ben a?lanacak hâlde olurdum galiba.

My surroundings are becoming as bright as I am. Until now, usually, haven't the places we appeared automatically become bright and splendid?

Why has such a good plan never occurred to me before? All the suffering I have gone through has been because of my own stupidity.