Quotes About Insight

Art," said Picasso, "is a lie that makes us realize the truth.

Nothing ever becomes real 'til it is experienced.

Axioms in philosophy are not axioms until they are proved upon our pulses: We read fine—things but never feel them to the full until we have gone the same steps as the Author.

Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.

Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced—even a Proverb is no proverb to you till your Life has illustrated it.

Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced -- even a proverb is no proverb to you till your life has illustrated it.

We read fine things but never feel them to the full until we have gone the same steps as the author.

It's commonly said that people who've been ill in childhood and who've had an upset education never really regret that they do. It means that you don't look at the world in the way that other people do, and if you were inclined to be a writer, that's a help.

All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.

There are two kinds of forecasters: those who don't know, and those who don't know they don't know.

I am part of all I have read.

COINCIDENCE You werent paying attention to the other half of what was going on.

But something held me back. Perhaps I was stopped by that level of feeling, deeper than thought, which contains the truth.

She has the acuity to sit inside an emotion and parse it.

But knowing that you had gone wrong, and knowing how you had gone wrong, were not the same thing as knowing how to put it right.

You've got that look about you, like you've seen more than you should have.

More particularly, having a largely German-oriented education has made me very responsive to 19th-century German literature.

A desk is a dangerous place from which to watch the world.

The space in which one looks, in which one examines is philosophically very different from the space in which one sees

Experience is a great teacher.

As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.

Living is Easy with Eyes Closed.

worldview. "So?" "You knew that?

Common sense, in this sense, is like oxygen: the higher you go, the thinner it gets.