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Quotes About Insight

Seeing, looking at what others cannot bear to see is what my life is all about.
~ Don McCullin
I regard myself as a woman who has seen much of life.
~ Belle Starr
The greatest illiterate is the inability to learn the great things of life from small things around.
~ Matthew Ashimolowo
The image that fiction presents is purged of the distractions, confusions and accidents of ordinary life.
~ Robert Penn Warren
A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes anothers.
~ Jean Paul
They say that there are moments that open up your life like a walnut cracked, that change your point of view so that you never look at things the same way again.
~ Jodi Picoult
Writing is making sense of life.
~ Nadine Gordimer
Our whole life is solving puzzles.
~ Erno Rubik
Observe your enemies, for they first find out your faults.
~ Antisthenes
Life is a peephole, a single tiny entry onto a vastness--how can I not dwell on this brief, cramped view of things? This peephole is all I've got!
~ Yann Martel
Life is filled with abstractions, and the only way to make heads or tails of it is going through intuition.
~ David Lynch
One thing that I'm sure of is the real pleasure of life - it's not being known, it's not having your own jet plane, it's not having a mansion the pleasure is to learn something
~ Francis Ford Coppola
The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it.
~ James Bryce
All the important things in life lie beyond reason... and that's just the way things are.
~ Alister E. McGrath
What humbugs we are, who pretend to live for beauty, and never see the dawn!
~ Logan Pearsall Smith
Most of my life wasn't about knowledge from books, but experiential knowledge.
~ Matisyahu
In life learn art, in the artwork learn life. If you see the one correctly you see the other also.
~ Friedrich Hölderlin
Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.
~ Alexander Herzen
Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life.
~ Muriel Spark
Life is what you allow yourself not to see.
~ Al McGuire
Life and people are complex. A writer as an artist doesn't have the personality of a politician. We don't see the world that simply.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
Life gets harder the smarter you get, the more you know.
~ Katharine Hepburn
One reads books in order to gain the privilege of living more than one life. People who don't read are trapped in a mine shaft, even if they think the sun is shining.
~ Garrison Keillor
We are a landscape of all we have seen.
~ Isamu Noguchi