Quotes About Insight

I write journals and would recommend journal writing to anyone who wishes to pursue a writing career. You learn a lot. You also remember a lot... and memory is important.

Anyone who wants to look at sunlight naturally wipes his eye clear first, in order to make, at any rate, some approximation to the purity of that on which he looks; and a person wishing to see a city or country goes to the place in order to do so.

Twitter is like overhearing people's conversations, which is exactly what dictionary editors have been wishing we could do for years.

Wit consists in knowing the resemblance of things that differ, and the difference of things that are alike.

Irreverence is easy - what's hard is wit.

Our erected wit maketh us to know what perfection is.

The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.

The wit knows that his place is at the tail of a procession.

Wit is the lowest form of humor.

There is an old maxim which states that good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from poor judgment. I think something similar can be said of government policy, to wit: Good policy comes from experience, and experience comes from poor policy.

There is not less wit nor less invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author of that thought.

Whether it's viewers of the show or readers of my columns and books, I'm consistently impressed with their wit, humor and insight. That goes for about 95 percent of the audience. The other five percent are why the 'Delete' option and restraining orders were invented.

The Americans just have a great sort of wit about them.

Nefertiti is lovely, but we should use our wit and will to look beyond that beautiful face to discover and to enjoy a more satisfying narrative - the story of mankind, not just of man.

I think you can learn a lot from primary sources. 'The Penguin Book of Witches,' which is edited by novelist Katherine Howe, is a wonderful compilation of primary sources about witchcraft.

You carry Mother Earth within you. She is not outside of you. Mother Earth is not just your environment. In that insight of inter-being, it is possible to have real communication with the Earth, which is the highest form of prayer.

Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves - and find nothing! Therefore they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves either.

You must look within for value, but must look beyond for perspective.

Everyone who wills can hear the inner voice. It is within everyone.

Philosophers, as things now stand, are all too fond of offering criticism from on high instead of studying and understanding things from within.

If you cannot find the truth within yourself, where else do you expect to find it?

When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story's voice makes everything its own.

Simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.

Literature delivers tidings of the world within and the world without.