Quotes About Insight

This book endeavors to clear away the mists which prevent so many from seeing the road.

All is but lip-wisdom which wants experience.

Fool," said my muse to me. "Look in thy heart and write.

I now have learn'd Love right, and learn'd even so, As who by being poisoned doth poison know.

Once in a while you will stumble upon the truth but most of us manage to pick ourselves up and hurry along as if nothing had happened.

Statistics are like a drunk with a lampost: used more for support than illumination.

The best works of art are never innocuous: they alter the viewer's perceptual predictions. It is only when the patterns of our vision are disrupted that we truly pay attention and must ask ourselves what we are looking at.

I see what I did not see. I experience that which is outside my own experience. This is the magic of reading novels. This is the working out of the problem of illusion. I take a book off the shelf. I open it up and begin to read, and what I discover in its pages is real.

Each had his own language for seeing, and that language created vision. We all inherit vision just as they did - two men who stood side by side but were nevertheless separated by and intellectual chasm.

Every reader writes the book he or she reads, supplying what isn't there, and that creative invention becomes the book.

Augustine's insight that emotion dims in memory, however, is overwhelmingly true of our episodic memories. The cooling of the emotions that belong to such recollections is built into the nature of this kind of memory, because it is quickly turned into narrative.

Augustine's insight that emotion dims in memory, however, is overwhelmingly true of our episodic memories. The cooling of the emotions that belong to such recollections is built into the nature of this kind of memory, because it is quickly turned into narrative. The raw affective material of memories is restructured and then told as stories from a remove.

A young person always extrapolates human reality from her own life.

No one can understand love who has not experienced infatuation. And no one can understand infatuation, no matter how many times he has experienced it.

What is love?/ One name for it is knowledge.

The wise are wise only because they love.

What I love about being an actress is being able to really look into myself and understand another human being.

I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it

If you love something enough, it will reveal itself to you.

So, yes, there's nothing I love more than listening to directors talk about their movies.

I do love to eavesdrop. It's inspirational, not only for subject matter but for actual dialogue, the way people talk.

Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.

I sort of fall in love with every character I do; you have to understand how they became what they've become, whether they're the ugly kind or the very beautiful kinds of characters.

Very early in life, I fell in love with the landscape of the human face, where all the emotional states of life are to be found.