Quotes About Insight

When I was doing 'Beau Travail,' I listened a lot to Benjamin Britten.

I don't get so much inspiration from other musicians. Especially alive musicians. Late musicians are good - Bach, Beethoven - yes, good.

Nothing is said that has not been said before.

Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end.

You learn an incredible amount doing theatre, not just about to behave.

I'm simply trying to tell the truth about human behaviour as I see it.

I can tell if I'm being lied to or manipulated a little better than most. It's definitely an advantage for me.

Maybe from the outside, Belgium looks complicated to understand, but from the inside, actually, every country is complicated.

It's so much more interesting having life under your belt.

Intelligence is the door to freedom and alert attention is the mother of intelligence. NISARGADATTA MAHARAJ, I Am That

attention and the awareness that arises from it are the doorway to true education and learning — life-long gifts that keep deepening with use.

It is easy, when you are young, to believe that what you desire is no less than what you deserve, to assume that if you want something badly enough, it is your God-given right to have it… I was a raw youth who mistook passion for insight and acted according to an obscure, gap-ridden logic.

It is easy when you are young to believe that what you desire is no less than what you deserve, to assume that if you want something badly enough it is your God-given right to have it... I was a raw youth who mistook passion for insight and acted according to an obscure, gap-ridden logic. I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was wrong in my life. In the end, of course, it changed almost nothing...I came to appreciate that mountains make poor recepticles for dreams.

The trust that Abraham Lincoln had in himself and in the people was surprising and grand, but it was also enlightened and well founded. He knew the American people better than they knew themselves, and his truth was based upon this knowledge.

Addison had written in words reproduced by Murray. "The philosopher, the saint, or the hero, the wise, the good, or the great man, very often lies hid and concealed in a plebeian, which a proper education might have disinterred, and have brought to light.

He is the representative of no constituency, but of the whole people. When he speaks in his true character, he speaks for no special interest. If he rightly interpret the national thought and boldly insist upon it, he is irresistible; and the country never feels the zest of action so much as when its President is of such insight and caliber.

his other hand. Sensitive to his guest's affliction, Churchill realized that "every step" was

Plenty of philosophical men live in abstract regions, debating types and shadows. The rarer sort is the reader and thinker who can see the world whole.

Son," Johnson said, "I've served in the House. And I've been privileged to serve in the Senate, too. And they're both good places to serve. So I wouldn't begin to advise you what to do, except to say this—that the difference between being a member of the Senate and a member of the House is the difference between chicken salad and chicken shit." The former president paused. "Do I make my point?

To know what has come before is to be armed against despair.

That's the psychopath: somebody who doesn't understand what's going on emotionally, but understands that something important has happened." But

In fact, ever since I first learned about confirmation bias, I've been seeing it everywhere.

In fact ever since I first learned about confirmation bias I've been seeing it everywhere. Everywhere.

I had to remind myself that it's good for journalists to feel demeaned. It means we're onto a story.