Quotes About Insight

Odd thing about death ... it reaffirms life.

If you're a comedian, you are looking for material in daily life.

You wouldn't want somebody in office who hasn't experienced life.

Education is the apprenticeship of life

Understanding is better than ignorance. Ignorance, unlike life, unlike narrative, is static. Understanding implies a forward motion, thus the possibility of change.

An idea comes as near to something for nothing as you can get.

I thought I pretty much knew Johnny Cash's life. But one of my personal discoveries was how little we know about any of these people.

No matter how long you practiceyou sense there will always be something to learn,something more to embrace about yourself & life.

It's the bringing together of knowledge and wisdom that is a great part - perhaps the greatest part - of our life's journey.

Documenting one's life in the midst of living it is a strange pursuit.

Through writing, through that process, they realize that they become more intelligent, and more honest and more imaginative than they can be in any other part of their life.

The best lesson I was given is that all of life teaches, especially if we have that expectation.

The experiences of life must be transformed into true comprehension.

Life's experiences should turn into real understanding.

My favorite things in life are my children. If somebody wants to understand me, there's no better window into that than my children.

Sir, as a man advances in life, he gets what is better than admiration, - judgement, to estimate things at their true value.

Books without the knowledge of life are useless.

I'd seen another shade of him, and if it had been light where we were now, he'd have seen the same of me. So I was grateful, as I had been so often in my life, for the dark.

It's like reading a book about a life that you will never occupy, but that's the beauty of being transported.

I've been able to read people my entire life, because I've interviewed people now for 20-some-odd years. So you can read people that way.

I think your life informs your art.

As you grow older, you learn to understand life a little better.

People can be stunningly unobservant.

In a huge way, everything that I've done in my life has helped inform my ability to communicate with actors and direct them.