Quotes About Insight

But life is a great school. It thrashes and bangs and teaches you.

Trading gives you an incredibly intense feeling of what life is all about.

People don't come to therapy for exclamation; they come for experience.

Books do not make life easier or more simple, but harder and more interesting.

Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life.

We have understood nothing of life until we have understood that it is one vast confusion.

The art of reading is in great part that of acquiring a better understanding of life from one's encounter with it in a book.

Life, it turns out, is infinitely more clever and adaptable than anyone had ever supposed.

The inspiration can come in such small ways that if you sit there just waiting for the big epiphany you'll sit there for the rest of your life.

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

When the world makes no sense, go inside yourself, and listen carefully to your needs, until you understand once more.

Nobody understands your life, but you.

Photography starts with the projection of the photographer, his understanding of life and himself into the picture.

The harder we look at our aches and ailments, the more we will be startled by the painful truths they are trying to convey about our dangerously disembodied way of life.

God's purpose for man is to acquire a seeing eye and an understanding heart.

This is what I like, sitting at a table and watching people go by. It does something to your outlook on life. The Anglo-Saxons make a great mistake not staring at people from a sidewalk table.

The more you understand yourself, the more you will understand the world.

The whole life lies in the verb seeing.

Lovers have known sometimes what saints have not known.

Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.

To me, it's obvious that the winner has to bet very selectively. It's been obvious to me since very early in life. I don't know why it's not obvious to very many other people.

I mean, I find things that happened in real life to be the funniest - things that you observe instead of crazy abstract things, you know.

Where observation is concerned, chance favors only the prepared mind.

The ancient Greeks were the first ones to say an unexamined life is not worth living. They don't tell you of course what we found out, an examined life not that fascinating either.