Quotes About Insight

Have you ever noticed that idiots have a lot of friends? It's just an observation.

Los niños... A veces son mucho más astutos que los atontados y pesados adultos.)

First the colours. Then the humans. That's how I normally see things. Or at least, how I try.

Rather than being love-blinded, it is in love that I can see, really see.

The artist is always engaged in writing a detailed history of the future because he is the only person aware of the nature of the present.

To see a man slip on a banana skin is to see a rationally structured system suddenly translated into a whirling machine.

The artist is a person who is expert in the training of perception.

Playboy : Have you ever taken LSD yourself? McLUHAN : No, I never have. I'm an observer in these matters, not a participant.

The past went a-way. When faced with a totally new situation, we tend always to attach ourselves to the objects, to the flavor of the most recent past. We look at the present through a rear-view mirror.

In the age of instant information man ends his job of fragmented specializing and assumes the role of information-gathering. Today information-gathering resumes the inclusive concept of "culture" exactly as the primitive food-gatherer worked in complete equilibrium with his entire environment. Our quarry now, in this new nomadic and "workless" world, is knowledge and insight into the creative processes of life and society.

It's easier to find out who someone isn't than who they are

Stepping back from the Dictator and the Wild Child and becoming the Watcher is like thinking you've been stuck on a railroad track, able to move only backward and forward, and discovering that you had the capacity to fly all along.

Novelists don't normally write about what's going on; they write about what's not going on.

The great writers can take us anywhere; but half the time they're taking us where we don't want to go.

Perhaps, at such moments, the sky is no more than the sum of the dirt that lives in our human eyes.

Drawing makes you see things clearer, and clearer, and clearer still. The image is passing through you in a physiological way, into your brain, into your memory - where it stays - it's transmitted by your hands.

How often I find myself called wrong,' Churchill had written to his wife on 17 April 1924, 'for warning of follies in time.

Technology is therefore no mere means. Technology is a way of revealing […], i.e., of truth.

Initially we understand nothing at all, and for this reason we ask.

The difference between a dreamer and a visionary is that a dreamer has his eyes closed and a visionary has his eyes open

There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

Something he had read came into his head, that André Malraux had once asked an elderly priest what he had learned of the human race after a lifetime of hearing confessions, and the priest had replied, "That there are no grown-ups.

André Malraux had once asked an elderly priest what he had learned of the human race after a lifetime of hearing confessions, and the priest had replied, "That there are no grown-ups.

Keeping a journal of what's going on in your life is a good way to help you distill what's important and what's not.