Quotes about Insight

You don't need to go that far in the future, you just have to go 2000 years ago.

The words of the Lord are written in the word around us. Merely be attentive to what happens in your life and you will discover where.

I find myself through my readers; I understand what I wrote when I see that others understand it too.

A man who called everyone a damn fool is like a man who damns the weather. He only shows that he is not adapted to his environment, not that the environment is wrong.

The person who knows only his side of the argument knows little of that.

If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.

True art takes note not merely of form but also of what lies behind.

A book should contain pure discoveries, glimpses of terra firma, though by shipwrecked mariners, and not the art of navigation by those who have never been out of sight of land.

There's nothing like drawing a thing to make you really see it.

That's what attracts us to serious paintings, I think: that shortfall, which we might call "personality", or maybe even "pain".

The balcony is a metaphor for a mental and emotional place of perspective, calm, and self-control. If life is a stage and we are all actors on that stage, then the balcony is a place from which we can see the entire play unfolding with greater clarity. To observe our selves, it is valuable to go to the balcony at all times, and especially before, during, and after any problematic conversation or negotiation.

Wisdom is oft-times nearer when we stoop Than when we soar.