Quotes About Insight

I had a little insight into life that most kids probably didn't have. My mother was a schoolteacher, and my father was a social worker. Through his eyes I saw the underside of society.

Novelists should never allow themselves to weary of the study of real life.

My journal is my life's companion.

Stories have the ability to take us inside all kinds of life.

I let go usually by talking to many people in different areas, in different realms of life that make me look at what I'm dealing with as being small fries stuff, you know?

As a fanboy myself, one of the fun things about the gig has been every time I get a new script, I get to find out more about his day - to-day life and what goes on and what his relationships are.

Overall, then, Aristotle just isn't as "sexy" as Plato. His only advantage is being right.

Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes.

I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know no way of judging of the future but by the past.

The helpful thought for which you look Is written somewhere in a book.

Explaining something makes it go away, so to speak; what's important is left after you have explained everything else.

All the things you can talk about in anyone's work are the things that are least important.

Learn about pines from the pine, and about bamboo from the bamboo," the seventeenth-century master of haiku, Matsuo Bash?, wrote in a series of insightful reflections on poetry. I would extend Bash?'s wisdom about nature, and about the poetry of nature in particular, to include the particular nature of poetry: learn about poetry from the poem .

I can explain it to you, but I can't comprehend it for you.

We learn from history that we do not learn from history. FRIEDRICH HEGEL

Tell it like it never really was and maybe we'll see it like it is.

Another, less polite way of saying it: People with attention issues tend to have acute bullshit detectors. We hate hypocrisy maybe more than any other human failing, and we can spot it a mile away.

Creativity, after all, does not happen on schedule or on demand. It

Uncannily accurate intuition, coupled with a tendency to overlook the obvious and ignore major data.

For just a little while, in all our lives, we're granted brief glimpses at the way things really operate. In those times, we learn the hardest lessons. To coin a few phrases, there are none so blind as those who will not see... and sometimes, the sweetest kittens have the sharpest claws.

At that moment Jack reached an insight, one he never forgot: a bee in a story could tickle worse than a real bee. He realized, too, that a story peach could be sweeter than a real peach, a story flower more fragrant than a real flower, a story song more melodious than a real song. What existed in a story could be more real than what existed in the world. And by reaching this insight, Jack understood the true power of his art.

For each of us, life is a story. There are characters, conflicts, plot developments, crises, interludes, twists and resolutions. Sometimes the story makes sense, sometimes it doesn't. But there's still value in the story itself, even when you can't add up the parts and understand the whole. A good story can lead you toward insight perhaps wisdom, regardless of whether or not you fully understand it. Maybe that's why storytelling has always been so important to me.

The best films of any kind, narrative or documentary, provoke questions.

When we have unified enough certain knowledge, we will understand who we are and why we are here.