Quotes About Insight

I believe everything learned in college is an answer to a question that someone has posed. Questions get posed differently and the answers that come back transport us to places we never knew existed.

I think fiction is important because it has the power to transport a reader into another life.

Public transportation is like a magnifying glass that shows you civilization up close.

The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.

We read each other through our eyes, and anatomically they are an extension of our brains. When we catch someone's eye, we look into a mind.

Great books are the ones that are urgent, life-changing, the ones that crack open the reader's skull and heart.

The great artist sees his objects (and this is true whether they are sad, absurd, repulsive or even evil) in a light of justice and mercy.

Unless you are a part of someone's life every day or even just with them most of the time, you will never really know what they have and had, what happened with them and how they really are, what they do, why they do it that way and what they feel.

That's how I stay on top baby. i look at life from every position. I play from every side. you gotta know what each man on the board is thinking down to the littlest mutherfucker like the pawn

past is like a histroy book were we can learn what weve done in it.

It's not the teaching, it's the learning.

The past is the mirror that reflects the future.

Sight seen that's been being is meaning.

My divine sign indicates the future to me.

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing. And in knowing that you know nothing, that makes you the smartest of all.

understanding a question is half an answer

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.

To know thyself is the beginning of wisdom.

Intelligent individuals learn from every thing and every one; average people, from their experiences. The stupid already have all the answers.

When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.

The more I know, the more I realize I know nothing.

Wisdom is knowing you know nothing

Nosce te ipsum