Quotes About Insight

Curation is a form of pattern recognition - pieces of information or insight which over time amount to an implicit point of view.

The spiritual journey has to do with learning to think more deeply and take as long a time as we need. That's the path to wisdom.

It is not what a man knows, but what he thinks of in time.

I love being on sets with very seasoned directors as well as very new directors. Every time is a discovery process. You learn something new every time.

Insight occurs just because it is high time.

I had a really good time on the show [Sisterhood of Hip Hop]. Most of all, what I've learned is I need to share what it is that I know.

Some period of time later you look up and say, "That concern was right on the mark; it happened exactly as I thought it would." So that's been really helpful to recognize.

Let us consider that we are all partially insane. It will explain us to each other; it will unriddle many riddles; it will make clear and simple many things which are involved in haunting and harassing difficulties and obscurities now.

Explaining humor is a lot like dissecting a frog, you learn a lot in the process, but in the end you kill it.

If we would learn what the human race really is at bottom, we need only observe it in election times.

We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it and stop there lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove lid again and that is well but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.

The common eye sees only the outside of things, and judges by that, but the seeing eye pierces through and reads the heart and the soul, finding there capacities which the outside didn't indicate or promise, and which the other kind of eye couldn't detect.

Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation.

Those who don't read good books have no advantage over those who can't.

Some people get an education without going to college. The rest get it after they get out.

One must travel, to learn. Every day, now, old Scriptural phrases that never possessed any significance for me before, take to themselves a meaning.

Homely truth is unpalatable.

I saw a startling sight today, a politician with his hands in his own pockets.

Let us consider that we are all insane. It will explain us to each other. It will unriddle many riddles

The common eye sees only the outside of things, and judges by that, but the seeing eye pierces through and reads the heart and the soul.

Don't explain your author, read him right and he explains himself.

A woman's intuition is better than a man's. Nobody knows anything, really, you know, and a woman can guess a good deal nearer than a man.

The mere knowledge of a fact is pale; but when you come to realize your fact, it takes on color. It is all the difference between hearing of a man being stabbed to the heart, and seeing it done.

You cannot trust your eyes, if your imagination is out of focus.