Quotes About Insight

There is something very intimate and personal about one's books. They reveal so much of one's private soul.

spirituality alone will not take a man far in the Mysteries; he must have intellectual powers as well.

Life is not quite so simple as the uninformed would like to believe.

Jelkes came to the conclusion that Mona knew exactly what she was doing, and that it was not the slightest use to speak to her.

The camera can photograph thought.

We don't go to Shakespeare to find out about life in Elizabethan England; we go to Shakespeare to find out about ourselves now.

One has, I am now certain, to be a little mad to see into the past or the future, to be a little abridged of life to know life, the obscure life – darkly seen.

Of course they understood, they understood what was happening around them and they understood what the Fifth [Symphony] was about.

Really, we musicians do like to talk about Mussorgsky. In fact, I think that it's the second most favourite topic after Tchaikovsky's love life.

Dobro znate da ljudi misle r?avo samo o onome koga odli?no poznaju.

Hadži?: Gospodine generale, te ?injenice zna i Vrhovna Komanda. A sa brega se dalje vidi, stara je mudrost. General Miši?: Ali pod uslovom da oni na vrhu brega nisu slepi, da imaju bolje o?i od onih što su na strani ili u podnožju. A ja u mnogim prilikama sumnjam u vidovitost onih što gledaju s vrha brega. Ako su im oblaci bliži, ljudi su im manji.

Imam toliko iskustva da pouzdano znam: u stvaranju I ljubavi tu?a iskustva ne zna?e skoro ništa.

Perhaps if I make myself write I shall find out what is wrong with me.

Stay on top of your past so you can have a better view of your future.

If you are unable to find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?

do not view mountains from the scale of human thought

Prefer to be defeated in the presence of the wise than to excel among fools.

come in a dream or a flash of insight. Frequently you have read of inventors telling that when they waked, the answer to whatever it was, was there in their brains. This

There cannot be the understanding of that which is given until there is experienced that which is taken.

Then we decided that our failure to understand something does not necessarily mean it is without merit.

Someone's therapist knows all about you.

It's the look you give a well-behaved imbecile, an insurance policy against cosmic malevolence.

The prince who would know all, must ignore much.

Intuition is more than knowledge, and truth comes pure from the heart.