Quotes About Insight

Listen to people in their 80s. They have looked across the street at death for a decade. They know what's vital.

Love gives us a heightened consciousness through which to apprehend the world, but anger gives us a precise, detached perception of its own.

The years roll on and life seems like this more and more, that choices don't really exit in the way I thought they would when I was a child and expected the regal power of adulthood to provide clarity and insight.

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Always there is something of interest to be seen if one but knows where to look for it.

My business is to know things, especially things which I am not supposed to know.

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for who could be blind to the evidence of his eyes, the obviousness of that hall-watcher's hate? Whoever escaped kept a weather-eye open and moved away.

I can't think of a case where poems changed the world, but what they do is they change people's understanding of what's going on in the world.

Illusions can be pleasant, but the rewards of truth are enormously better.

In a dark time, the mind begins to see.

A writer strives to express a universal truth in the way that rings the most bells in the shortest amount of time.

Shakespeare tells the same stories over and over in so many guises that it takes a long time before you notice.

We are sitting on a cornucopia of knowing that we had no way to access as a democracy. We couldn't get the democratization of the human capacity before our time.

Prison opened my eyes to so many things. It was a great time. I met interesting people. I got to understand the behaviour of the police and the media. I am an observer of the human race.

Have I turned into a motorized preacher? We spend so much time in cars that if you don't try to get some experiences out of it, you can go crazy.

Even youngish men can acquire wisdom as time goes by.

One of the most extraordinary things about being a spiritual teacher is the rare privilege of being able to look deeply into the very souls of many human beings at the same time.

It's so funny because I listen to songs that I recorded that I didn't really know anything about at the time. Later on I'm starting to feel the songs. Sing them first, feel them later.

I'm a writer, so I interview people all the time, and I think of it as being a very creative process. Giving interviews is actually one of the most creative parts of the film promotion process.

O, I have read his Heart in his wicked eyes many a time. The very devil is in them.

I think I'd been limiting myself in some ways just writing in first person all the time.

What the rest of us see only under the influence of mescalin, the artist is congenitally equipped to see all the time.

In the same way that Shakespeare was writing very much for his time, he was also unearthing observations that would last for generations beyond him.