Quotes About Insight

Your inner being already knows. It's trying to communicate with you. But it needs to shift you into a different state of mind.

It's not logical, self-realization. If it was, everybody would be self-realized because everybody is logical.

How much larger your life would be if you were smaller in it.

Ignorance is not an extension of time

A major part of the meaning of life is contained in the very process of discovering it.

Don't think of words when you stop but to see picture better.

Creative leaders inherently know when rules need to be challenged, and they can see when a more flexible approach should be taken.

I don't need faith. I have experience.

Never buy a saddle until you have met the horse.

That's the problem with truth. The truth is relentless. It won't leave you alone. It keeps creeping up on you from every side, showing you what's really so. That can he annoying.

I think the overall mood of the music informs the artwork, but I've found that good lyrics can be inspirational, too.

Even those truths that are painful will ultimately increase my wisdom, undergird my strength, make possible my art.

I consider this world to be like a school and our lives to be the classrooms.

You don't have to be a genius to find the hidden potential deep in your mind.

Poets need not go to Niagara to write about the force of falling water.

Without common sense, all thine efforts are in vain.

Knowledge can only be got in one way, the way of experience; there is no other way to know.

Do not think too deeply about these things - gradually they will become clearer to you

There are so many people who have lived and died before you. You will never have a new problem; you're not going to ever have a new problem. Somebody wrote the answer down in a book somewhere.

I sometimes find that in interviews you learn more about yourself than the person learned about you.

What we need in literature today are vast philosophic horizons... we need the most ultimate, the most fearsome, the most fearless "Why?" and "What next?".

Intelligence and genius

You must have a clear mental picture of the correct thing before you can do it successfully.

Learn from the birds what food the thickets yield; Learn from the beasts the physic of the field; The arts of building from the bee receive; Learn of the mole to plow, the worm to weave.