Quotes About Insight

One of the great things about the Internet is that you can read what everybody has to say about everything. It is fascinating to me, the critiques about humor by people who have no sense of humor.

It is invariably saddening to look through new eyes at things upon which you have expended your own powers of adjustment.

The truly beautiful are often abused for apparent ugliness just as those with great vision often bump into things.

Great leaders are never too proud to learn.

The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds.

If you can't see someone's got a game with great personality, you shouldn't be out there looking.

I was thinking one of the great things about fiction is we, as a race, only get to look out of our own eyes at the world. And fiction is a fantastic way of looking out through somebody else's eyes.

The opposite of every great idea is another great idea.

It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.

At sixty, I know little more about wisdom than I did at thirty, but I know a great deal more about folly.

Sometimes people can write really great scenes and even a great episode, but they can't see the bigger picture.

Write while the heat is in you.

Do you realize that all great literature is all about what a bummer it is to be a human being? Isn't it such a relief to have somebody say that?

Our ability to do great things with data will make a real difference in every aspect of our lives.

To a great experience one thing is essential, an experiencing nature.

I try to find humor in everything I do, because I think all great plays - even great tragedies - have enormous humor in them.

I think often sadness is a great place to get songs from.

Predictability and great design are not friends.

The great poet is always a seer, seeing less with the eyes of the body than he does with the eyes of the mind.

As it is the mark of great minds to say many things in a few words, so it is that of little minds to use many words to say nothing.

All great authors are seers.

What I really mean is that a great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it.

In order to be a great writer a person must have a built-in, shockproof crap detector.

Well, the thing about great fictional characters from literature, and the reason that they're constantly turned into characters in movies, is that they completely speak to what makes people human.