Quotes About Insight

Take a look at the books other people have in their homes.

Great critics, of whom there are piteously few, build a home for the truth.

The Unicorn Sonata... tells us that our true home is often right around the corner, if we'd only open our eyes - and our ears - to find it.

Pet lovers know that animals sometimes understand us better than we do, and the annals of human sin and desire provide plenty of stories to drive the point home.

A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past.

I walked away to get wisdom, but in the end I just walked home.

Sometimes just watching a person doing the things they would only do at home lets you know who they really are.

'Black Hole Sun' was written in a car when I was driving home from the studio one night. Pretty much everything that you hear was written in my head.

Making art has first of all to do with honesty. My first lesson was to see objectively, to erase all meaning of the thing seen. Then only could the real meaning of it be understood and felt.

It doesn't mean old or younger. I've learned a lot from people much younger than me as well as people much older than me. So I think it's about honesty and generosity.

All abilities are paid for with disabilities. perfect health may entail the heavy toll of bovine stupidity. insight into one area involves blind spots in another.

I realized, dumb people don't know they're dumb. When people try to make me laugh and they try to be funny, that's when they lose me. I find a lot of comedy in honesty.

It's not cruelty, maybe, but a desire to understand that motivates them.

Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.

Confessions are meant to reveal universal truths through specific examples.

Maturity is when you're able to say, 'It's not just them. It's me.

The people who enlighten us are the ones who tell us their secrets.

It's better to be quotable than to be honest.

All the great things are simple.

Everyone honors the wise.

The man who interprets Nature is always held in great honor.

I grow daily to honor facts more and more, and theory less and less.

Honor thy error as a hidden intention.

Learn from yesterday, live for today.