Quotes About Insight

Your heart often knows things before your mind does.

Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.

Books, the books that I loved above all else to spend my time with, were the great tools for understanding one's life and the lives of other people.

Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

The Cube is an imitation of life itself - or even an improvement on life.

Life is a learning experience, only if you learn.

My ambition was always to show aspects of daily life as if we were seeing them for the first time.

You meet all kinds of people that help put life in perspective and turn the horror into some kind of lesson or avenue of awakening that lives with you all your days.

We think too small, like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.

If you don't know, ask. You will be a fool for the moment, but a wise man for the rest of your life.

There is no better high than discovery.

The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man.

You don't have to gaze into a crystal ball when you can read an open book.

What I really want out of life is to discover something new, something mankind didn't know was possible to do.

A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding.

Life is lived forwards, but understood backwards.

I have always preferred the reflection of the life to life itself.

You spend your life getting walked on, you learn to recognize the tread.

The meaning of life is found by diving deep, deep within.

He who truly knows has no occasion to shout.

If you can't understand it without an explanation, you can't understand it with an explanation.

Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.

Taking LSD was a profound experience, one of the most important things in my life.

In my whole life, I have known no wise people who didn't read all the time - none ... ZERO.