Quotes About Insight

Man know much more than he understands.

Man knows more than he understands.

A person may be a moron or an imbecile if he is lacking in judgment; but with good judgment he can never be either. Indeed the rest of the intellectual faculties seem of little importance in comparison with judgment.

Man muß die Welt sehen können und zu ihr hingehn." S.25

Man is a pupil, pain is his teacher.

Je connais peu les femmes; mais il me semble qu'il est difficile qu'on admire ce qu'on ne comprend pas

Try walking a mile in your enemy's shoes. You'll be a mile away and you'll have his shoes.

In retrospect it becomes clear that hindsight is definitely overrated!

first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother's eye" (Matt. 7:5).

It's often been said that the only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.

I love the op-ed pages of the 'L.A. Times,' the 'Washington Post' and the 'New York Times.' There's just no substitute for the people who are thinking and writing on those pages.

I don't want to sound pretentious or meta or anything, but I don't write until it comes to me... People know when something is inspired and when something is not, and I don't want to waste anyone's time.

Sideline reporting may look insidious, superfluous, or just a total waste of airtime from where you sit - probably on a couch or a recliner, perhaps on a bar stool in your local brewery - but let me assure you, if you're one of the handful who take it as seriously as some of my colleagues do, it is anything but.

If I don't learn something every single day, it's a wasted day.

Every language teaches you something, so learning a language is never wasted, especially if it's different in more than just syntactic trivia.

I'm obsessed with people, I'm obsessed with human behavior. I just watch people.

I'm never bored, never ever bored. If I've got a day off I'll sit in a cafe and watch and observe. I'm a great observer.

I don't really talk that much. I just watch and observe.

I probably learned, being in 'Taxi Driver' before I made my first film, I would come to the set every day just to watch how that film came about. It's like a graduate course: it's terrific. You talk to the cinematographer during the breaks. You ask the electrician why they are doing this.

Watch the mouth, it reveals what the eyes try to hide.

I try to watch a movie a day, if not more, and through movies, I learned about so many different political themes I hadn't been interested in and cultural things I hadn't been aware of and economic factors I hadn't thought about.

As filmmakers, we can show where a person's mind goes, as opposed to theater, which is more to sit back and watch it.

I do not have to watch late-night television, watch a movie, to find out what combat is like.

I don't ask other actors questions. I think that's too intrusive. I just watch. I don't want to be constricted to an idea of what acting is by anyone else. I want to take my own education.