Quotes About Insight

Indeed, I am repeatedly astonished by the number of really good writers who understand human beings so well on paper but don't know how to deal with them in real life.

Life does not consist mainly - or even largely - of facts and happenings.

I wondered what else in my life I perceived to be wrong or difficult instead of exploring to understand the true purpose.

Anyone who comes into your life, under any circumstances, has something to teach you.

Art's true purpose is to be human as opposed to some rarefied activity set away from real life. I think art should help you to navigate the real challenges of being a human being.

... every experience in life enriches one's background and should teach valuable lessons.

Wit saves us from being swallowed whole by life.

Poems can't help but be personal. Mine are certainly an accurate blueprint of the things I think about, if not a record of my daily life.

Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.

It is a fact that not once in all my life have I gone out for a walk. I have been taken out for walks; but that is another matter.

People who meditate deeply find wonderful things happening in their life all the time.

The day-to-day life we lead has nothing to do with enlightenment. It is just around the corner, and we don't see it.

Third, Yahweh also speaks of exposing the powerlessness of the nations' so-called gods and the uselessness of their so-called insight and capacity to decide what will happen in the world (e.g., Is 19:1-17).

Even at five, I was beginning to understand the world of things better than the world of people.

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

I don't think the intelligence reports are all that hot. Some days I get more out of the New York Times.

Careful, Arturo Bandini: don't strain your eyesight, remember what happened to Tarkington, remember what happened to James Joyce.

I'm old, but I'm not good enough to be jaded.

You see," Bouton wrote, "you spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time." Truer words were never written.

Jefferson determined the lodestar that lay hidden in the motivations of others

Will raised both eyebrows. 'Well, you learn a new thing everyday,' he said reflectively. 'In your case, that's no exaggeration,' Halt said, completely straight-faced.

She knew more about these situations than she realized, he thought. She'd spent years at Duncan's side. "When in doubt," he added, "be pompous.

Don't concentrate on the obvious. They might want you to miss something else.

A wise man once told me, don't believe anything you hear until you've seen it with your own eyes," Halt said. Crowley looked up at him. "Who said that? Pritchard?" It sounded like the sort of thing their old mentor might say. Halt affected to think for a few seconds, then gave a slight smile. "No. I think it was me, actually. I can be very wise at times.