Quotes About Insight

It is not enough to demand insight and informative images of reality from the theater. Our theater must stimulate a desire for understanding, a delight in changing reality. Our audience must experience not only the ways to free Prometheus, but be schooled in the very desire to free him. Theater must teach all the pleasures and joys of discovery, all the feelings of triumph associated with liberation.

One must live well to know what living is.

Therefore learn how to see and not to gape. To act instead of talking all day long. The world was almost won by such an ape! The nations put him where his kind belong. But don't rejoice too soon at your escape - The womb he crawled from is still going strong.

All the world says: yes we know what's written in the books but now let's see what our eyes tell us.

He thought in other heads, and in his own, others besides himself thought

Mankind lives by its head Its head won't see him through Inspect your own. What lives off that? At most a louse or two.

As soon as something seems the most obvious thing in the world,it means that we have abandoned all attempts to understanding it.

The most important thing is to learn to think crudely. Crude thinking is the thinking of great men.

Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.

People who understand everything get no stories.

Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.

When something seems 'the most obvious thing in the world' it means that any attempt to understand the world has been given up.

Some know full well what Bernard Shaw had in mind when he wrote that "All great truths begin as blasphemies." Rather

Common sense, however it tries, cannot avoid being surprised from time to time.

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite.

The main thing needed to make men happy is intelligence.

I sense a space around him. He has a manner of eyeing people, even if he's standing face to face, as though he sees them from a distance.

If I can't see stories in the lives of the people around me,--I just couldn't see them anywhere. If I can't see drama in humanity near me, I guess I couldn't detect it in humans far away.

Already I was learning that some of the things I was learning weren't things I'd need to know.

But remember that reading provides nourishment for hungers we might not even be aware of. How often have I chosen a book at random and found in it an answer I didn't realize I was seeking.

But there's a blessing in everything if we open our eyes.

You're wrong, Mama. The world's beautiful, but you're so busy being disappointed in everything you don't see it!!

You can't see the whole sky from one window.