Quotes About Insight

My own way of thinking is to ponder long and I hope deeply on problems and for a long time which I keep away for years and years and I never really let them go.

It is just human nature to take time to connect the dots, I know that. But I also know that there can be a day of reckoning when you wish you had connected the dots more quickly.

Common sense, however it tries, cannot avoid being surprised from time to time.

Science is the storytelling of our time.

A moment's thought would have shown him. But a moment is a long time, and thought is a painful process.

Reading enables us to see with the keenest eyes, to hear with the finest ears, and listen to the sweetest voices of all time.

Forget the known, don't be all the time immersed in your experiences.

Any time things appear to be going better, you have overlooked something.

It is looking at things for a long time that ripens you and gives you a deeper meaning.

As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.

Thich Nhat Hanh is one of the greatest teachers of our time. He reaches from the heights of insight down to the deepest places of the absolutely ordinary.

The body knows things a long time before the mind catches up to them. I was wondering what my body knew that I didn't.

Everything makes sense a bit at a time. But when you try to think of it all at once, it comes out wrong.

You should have some time to think and that's very important.

Ideas do not always come in a flash but by diligent trial-and-error experiments that take time and thought.

Surprising what you can dig out of books if you read long enough, isn't it?

In books lies the soul fo the whole past time.

Even If you're doing the same thing over & over, U need to discover something new, fantastic & unbelievable that went unnoticed the time before.

Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.

It's hard to see a film one time and really "get it," and write fully and intelligently about it. That's a review. That's not film criticism.

History repeats itself because nobody listens the first time.

Good to know we're all twelve years old mentally. Keeps things in perspective.

I can read people, and if the other person doesn't want to say anything, I'm fine with that. People say things when it's time to say them.

But slowly I began to use cameras and then think about what it was that was going on. It took me a long time, I mean I actually played with cameras and photography for about 20 years.