Quotes About Insight

Art pierces opaque subjectivity, the not seeing of conventional life, and discloses reality.

He who grown aged in this world of woe, In deeds, not years, piercing the depths of life, So that no wonder waits him.

I've come to realize that life, while being everything, is also strangely not much. Except when the light shines on it a different way and then you realize it's a lot after all!

In daily life language is important, if not in itself, then as a symptom.

We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop there.

The idea is that it will tell you where the importance lies, because it will be able to show you what impacts you in your everyday life.

For the classics philosophical insight was the product of a life of leisure; for me a life of leisure is the product of philosophical insight.

There is a language that is beyond words. If I can learn to decipher that language without words, I will be able to decipher the world.

He knows that the most important words in all languages are the small words.

One can always learn from others. The Champion's Mind holds a wealth of insight as to how you can become a winner in your everyday life.

No experience is ever wasted. Everything has meaning.

From a good teacher you may learn the secret of listening. You will never learn the secret of life. You will have to listen for yourself

Wisdom is one of the few things in human life that does not diminish with age.

It was the moment I learned acting is not acting out. After that light went on, I spent the rest of my life trying to figure out how to make other people realize it.

It is from the level of calamities, not that of every-day life, that we learn impressive and useful lessons.

Life's a short trip. You'll find out.

All my life I wanted somebody who knew more than I did to tell me the truth.

Learn from other people's mistakes. Life is too short to make them all yourself.

All of life's riddles are answered in the movies.

We accept there's an emotional aspect to life. But we're not very developed in our ways of understanding it.

When I asked God for Brains and Brawn, He gave me Puzzles in life to Solve.

Life is a series of lessons that have to be understood.

I've got to show life as I see it.

It is said Somerset Maugham traveled the world with a notebook to learn the essence of life and Kafka sat in a room for the same objective. Yet Kafka came out with a better world-view.