Quotes About Insight

New places always help us look at life differently

I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully the second time into things that I am most certain of the first time.

Life in its highest state is understanding.

There's a lesson to be learned out of everything we go through in life.

Reading is the most important way to prepare for life.

History is the teacher of life

Keeping a journal of what's going on in your life is a good way to help you distill what's important and what's not.

You can't solve many of today's problems by straight linear thinking. It takes leaps of faith to sense the connections that are not necessarily obvious.

This history of culture will explain to us the motives, the conditions of life, and the thought of the writer or reformer.

Everyone's got a different story.

A novelist has to know enough about a subject to fool the passenger next to him on an airplane.

Meaning. If you're going to die, you want to find meaning in life. You want to connect the dots.

A basic rule of life for reporters is that you should spend your time talking with and learning about people who are not sending you press releases, rather than those who are.

I don't think you can come into your wisdom until you have made mistakes on your own skin and felt them in reality of your own life.

There's nothing more embarrassing than to have earned the disfavor of a perceptive animal.

You are always a little bit wrong

Knowing it and seeing it are two different things.

There are times when wisdom cannot be found in the chambers of parliament or the halls of academia but at the unpretentious setting of the kitchen table.

What can I say? I prefer to die well informed.

In a world so redolent with wonder, how can we allow ourselves to conduct our daily lives with so little insight, such absence of dignity?

Listen to the whispers or soon you will be listening to the screams.

Wasn't hitting bottom the thing you had to do to knock some sense into yourself? Wasn't hitting bottom the thing that showed you which way was up?

If you study life deeply, its profundity will seize you suddenly with dizziness.

The essence of life will never be captured by even the greatest of formulas.