Quotes About Insight

The way of words, of knowing and loving words, is a way to the essence of things, and to the essence of knowing.

We read to find life, in all its possibilities.

you can live a whole life time never being awake.

All my life I've dealt with politicians. I know politicians better than anybody. And honestly, if you can't deal with a politician, there's something wrong with you.

Young cat! If you keep Your eyes open enough, Oh, the stuff you will learn! The most wonderful stuff!

But I suppose you must touch life in order to spring from it.

Documentary filmmaking ruins you for real life, because you learn to be extremely attentive.

In books and in life, you need to read several pages before someone's true character is revealed.

You have to look at things that happened in your life and ask why. It comes around.

The most important thing we learn at school is the fact that the most important things can't be learned at school.

What poor education I have received has been gained in the University of Life.

The meaning of life cannot be told; it has to HAPPEN to a person.

The happy and the suffering probably understand life equally well, but the sufferers may see a little more clearly how little it is that they understand.

I had a life experience that most of my - that none of my friends had. I remember I became everybody's rabbi. Everybody who needed advice would talk to me, and it became an obvious thing.

We have increasingly fewer and fewer journalists who have any military experience and understand what life is like in the military and in combat.

I've tested life and I've learned what works for me.

There is a kind of character in thy life, That to the observer doth thy history, fully unfold.

All the skills which I have acquired during my sociological life allow me to diagnose and explain what is going on, but not to predict what will happen.

It is by a thorough knowledge of the whole subject that [people] are enabled to judge correctly of the past and to give a proper direction to the future.

To furnish the means of acquiring knowledge is the greatest benefit that can be conferred upon mankind. It prolongs life itself, and enlarges the sphere of existence.

I've had to make the difficult decision to follow my intuition, and allow myself the space and time to explore my true purpose in life.

I am older now, and sleep less, and have seen most of what there is to see and am not very much impressed any more, I suppose, by anything.

... the more you know about life, the more you get out of it.

In books I found explicitly, flamboyantly, everything censored in life.