Quotes About Insight

Maybe that sounds a bit pretentious, but I think life experience is always more important than technical knowledge.

I have a theory in life that there is no learning. There is no learning curve. Everything is tabula rasa. Everybody has to discover things for themselves.

We can know a person by observing his behaviour, understanding the reasons for his actions and ascertaining his intentions. If we do this, how can we not know him?

Life continually teaches. We eventually catch on.

Lasting change happens when people see for themselves that a different way of life is more fulfilling than their present one.

Reading is the best return on investment. You have to live your entire life in order to know one life. But with reading you can know 1000s of people's lives for almost no cost. What a great return!

Art informs life in so many ways, and vice versa.

Life is an endless process of self-discovery.

He who does not see the kingdom of heaven in this life will never see it in the coming life.

I have never spent a day in my adult life where I didn't learn something, and if there is a born-again quality to me, that's it.

Experiences are the chemicals of life with which the philosopher experiments

Life can be seen through your eyes but it is not fully appreciated until it is seen through your heart.

When I'm photographing I see life.

Even if a fool lived with a wise man all his life, he would still not recognise the truth, like a wooden spoon cannot recognise the flavour of the soup.

The only time you lose at something is when you don't learn from that experience.

In every aspect of my life, I tend to look for the deeper side.

It is wiser to find out than to suppose.

When we pull back and get, for a moment, the 'bird's eye' view of life, it reveals meanings that are ungraspable by the narrow focus of our usual worm's eye view

Look at life through the wrong end of the telescope.

For me nightlife is like everyday life's mirror.

Enough is abundance to the wise.

And maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.

Flora sighed. It was curious that persons who lived what the novelists called a rich emotional life always seemed to be a bit slow on the uptake.

The way I see things, the way I see life, I see it as a struggle. And there's a great deal of reward I have gained coming to that understanding - that existence is a struggle.