Quotes About Insight

What is art but a way of seeing?

To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I've found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.

A little perspective, like a little humor, goes a long way.

I read the paper every day and the Bible every day; that way I know what both sides are up to.

The most reliable way to forecast the future is to try to understand the present.

If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.

Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.

Wayne Gretzky is the greatest hockey player of all-time, I don't think there is any debate about that. If you look at the records he holds, they'll never be broken or touched. He wasn't the biggest, wasn't the fastest, and didn't have the hardest shot, but no one saw the game developing the way he saw the game develop.

I always knew the way in was Bruce Wayne. It wasn't Batman. It was never Batman. That was the key.

A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.

The joy of my heart is to 'study men, their manners, and their ways,' and for this darling object I cheerfully sacrifice every other consideration.

TV and film taught me to think cinematically. Teaching others to edit, for example, provides a great deal of insight into the millions of ways in which given elements can be put together to tell a story.

My therapist taught me why I behave in certain ways and not to feel so pressured.

I am a story-teller, and I look to academic research... for ways of augmenting story-telling.

Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.

Real progress in understanding nature is rarely incremental. All important advances are sudden intuitions, new principles, new ways of seeing.

There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge - that is everywhere.

For my art, there is a common theme most of the time: it is using the things we can see to search for the world we cannot see.

It sometimes seems easier to trace the great general laws of God's government in the passage of events far from us than in those close around us. We see the shape of those far-off constellations, but we cannot group or set in order that to which our own sun belongs.

Unless we remember we cannot understand.

We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.

We cannot get by Auschwitz. We should not even try, as great as the temptation is, because Auschwitz belongs to us, is branded into our history, and - to our benefit! - has made possible an insight that could be summarized as, 'Now we finally know ourselves.'

We read deeply for varied reasons, most of them familiar: that we cannot know enough people profoundly enough; that we need to know ourselves better; that we require knowledge, not just of self and others, but of the way things are.

We cannot leave history entirely to nonclinical observers and to professional historians.