Quotes About Insight

Be a loner. That gives you time to wonder.

Poetry is a way of looking at the world for the first time.

People who are right most of the time are people who change their minds often

On his daughter Malala Yousafzai: She was very articulate, more than me. She could say things in a very few words that I take a long time to communicate.

One who returns to a place sees it with new eyes. Although the place may not have changed, the viewer inevitably has. For the first time things invisible before become suddenly visible.

Whenever we proceed from the known to the unkown we may hope to understand, but we may have to learn at the same time a new meaning of the word 'understanding'

You could tell by the way he talked, though, that he had gone to school a long time. That was probably what was wrong with him.

If you spend enough time with yourself in silence, you'll be surprised what goes through your head.

We have what we seek, it is there all the time, and if we give it time, it will make itself known to us.

The effort to see things without distortion takes something like courage and this courage is essential to the artist, who has to look at everything as though he saw it for the first time.

Whenever anything negative happens to you, there is a deep lesson concealed within it, although you may not see it at the time

It is high time that we realized that it is pointless to praise the light and preach it if nobody can see it. It is much more needful to preach the art of seeing.

Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.

You get time to appreciate things. Perspective, you start looking at things differently.

The wisdom acquired with the passage of time is a useless gift unless you share it.

You can find something truly important in an ordinary minute.

The genius of Man in our time has gone into jet-propulsion, atom-splitting, penicillin-curing, etc. There is none left over for works of imagination; of spiritual insight or mystical enlightenment.

It takes a long time to understand nothing.

Every time you write a poem it's apocalyptic. You're revealing who you really are to yourself.

The growth of understanding follows an ascending spiral rather than a straight line.

But time has a way of demonstrating the most stubborn are the most intelligent.

Let your characters talk to each other and do things. Spend time with them - they'll tell you who they are and what they're up to.

Give me insight into today and you may have the antique and future worlds.

If you can't find your inspiration by walking around the block one time, go around two times-but never three.