Quotes about Insight

Advice is offensive, it shows us that we are known to others as well as to ourselves.

An ordinary man away from home giving advice.

I have lived some thirty years on this planet, and I have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from my seniors.

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.

If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.

And when I read, and really I do not read so much, only a few authors, - a few men that I discovered by accident - I do this because they look at things in a broader, milder and more affectionate way than I do, and because they know life better, so that I can learn from them.

it has always been so much my desire to paint for those who don't know the artistic side of a painting.

There are often beams in our eye that we know not of. Let us therefore ask that our eye may become single, for then we ourselves shall become wholly single.

I'd wish that everyone had what I'm gradually beginning to acquire, the ability to read a book easily and quickly and to retain a strong impression of it. Reading books is like looking at paintings: without doubting, without hesitating, with self-assurance, one must find beautiful that which is beautiful.

It is looking at things for a long time that ripens you and gives you a deeper meaning.

Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

Books are the mirrors of the soul.