Quotes About Insight

What does this beauty or than music mean to you? You cannot see the waves rolling up the beach or hear their roar. What do they mean to you?' In the most evident sense they mean everything. I cannot fathom or define their meaning any more than I can fathom or define love or religion or goodness.

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.

The only lightless dark is the night of ingnorance and insensibility.

I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world.

the bible gives me a deep comforting sense that (things seen are temporal,and things unseen are eternal.

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge—broad, deep knowledge—is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low.

You are amazed at all the things you know which are not on the examination paper.

What would be worse than being born blind? She replied, To have sight without vision.

Knowledge is power." Rather, knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge—broad, deep knowledge—is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low. To know the thoughts and deeds that have marked man's progress is to feel the great heart-throbs of humanity through the centuries; and if one does not feel in these pulsations a heavenward striving, one must indeed be deaf to the harmonies of life.

Whenever you're writing something that's reflective, you have to put yourself through some sort of ordeal just to understand the way you're feeling.

I write in order to find out what I truly know and how I really feel about certain things. Writing requires me to go much deeper into my thoughts and memories than conversation does. Writing provides the solitude necessary to reflect on being in this world.

For me, writing is a kind of coping mechanism.

Writing really evokes empathy in a way very few things can do.

Writing, for me, is the great organiser. It's while writing that I think most deeply about things.

Writing and reading fiction is, I think, a human effort to make sense of the world.

I'm a woman, and I'm interested in writing stories from a female perspective.

When I was writing 'Shotgun,' it's one of the first songs that's come to me as an image.

The core of my writing is not art but truth.

When I'm writing, sometimes it gets to that place where I feel like the piece is writing itself and I'm trying not to get in the way.

I don't know that it's particularly good for my writing process, but I have gotten some very valuable writing ideas and advice through Twitter and Facebook and other social network sites.

Music is an important part of my writing process.

My actual writing process? I have to just love the beat before I even write on it. I can't force myself to write to a beat that I'm not immediately loving.

I grew up on film sets but more around the process of making films. I saw a lot of the editing process and the writing process, which takes years. That really affected me growing up, that side of it.