Quotes About Insight

At the moment you are most in awe of all there is about life that you don't understand, you are closer to understanding it all than at any other time.

Now, what I want is, Facts. . . . Facts alone are wanted in life.

What difference does it make whether you're looking at a photograph or looking at a still life in front of you? You still have to look.

I read the book [My Life by Bill Clinton] completely. And I think it compares very favorably with Ulysses S. Grant's gold standard of presidential autobiographies.

An answer we discover or obtain through the exercise of faith is typically retained for a lifetime. The most important learnings of life are caught-not taught.

On becoming more acquainted with the word of the Bible, I began to understand so much more of what I had been taught, and of what I had learned about life and about the people in mine.

The mind has a thousand eyes.

It's all experience; not anything original

Confine yourself to observing and you always miss the point of your own life.

The function of the novelist... is to comment upon life as he sees it.

Scobe's Tenth Law: In all endeavors, in all aspects of life, there are more horses asses than horses!

The study of enlightenment is really a reorganization of our perceptual body or our perceptual field. We learn to see life more directly and more clearly.

As life tends to become more and more distracting, let us firmly hold on to books.

I adopt a very simple approach. I observe and reflect real life and ordinary people and sooner or later that raises a laugh.

Memoir implies the need to reveal something about yourself - to recount your life for educational purposes.

Life is the best teacher.

But certainly, for us who understand life, figures are a matter of indifference.

No matter how old we get, life's always got a lesson for you. Most likely one you've learned ten times before.

Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.

Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.

...in the habit of watching every bit of human life I can see about my windows, but I do it so that I am not observed at it.

It would be a terrible mistake to go through life thinking that people are the sum total of what you see.

the thing I would wish for anybody I loved would be the possibility of never coming to the end of discovery. I think it is what makes life worth living.

Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't.