Quotes About Insight

Enlightenment is the complete awareness of life without mental modifications.

With age, art and life become one.

The camera is my means to internalize those fleeting epiphanies that I was having in my life.

There's plenty of sense in nonsense sometimes, if you wish to look for it.

In life, as in chess, forethought wins.

Whoever makes you smarter a little earlier in life makes you better

I often learn more about myself from listening to the life story of a friend than I do reflecting on my own story.

This is the purpose of theology. By it my life becomes clearer and more conscious.

In a magazine, one can get - from cover to cover - 15 to 20 different ideas about life and how to live it.

Each moment spent searching is also a moment spent finding.

My life is slowed up by thought and the need to understand what I am living.

My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living.

Knowledge makes people special. Knowledge enriches life itself.

If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors.

I am neither an economist nor a photographer of monuments, and I am not much of a journalist either. What I am trying to do more than anything else is to observe life.

For much of my life as a journalist, I've viewed myself as being embedded with civilians and with those people who live on the other side of the barrel of a gun.

Life isn't about winning it's about what you learn and how much you can grow.

Wisdom is not what comes from reading great books. When it comes to understanding life, experiential learning is the only worthwhile kind, everything else is hearsay.

Books have always helped me make sense of things. With any life experience, you can find someone who has documented it in a poetic way.

Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.

I'm 21 years old and I think that I've got a lot of perspective in life.

It changed my life. I saw art then as I wanted to see it.

I want to talk to people that have been through big disappointments, big emotional crises, deep life struggles, and I will learn something from that.

He saw things in a way that others did not, so that a city I had lived in all my life seemed a different place, so that a woman became beautiful with the light on her face.