#Insight

"Understanding requires insight. Insight must be anchored."

"Science is the process that takes us from confusion to understanding..."

"Whether it's viewers of the show or readers of my columns and books, I'm consistently impressed with their wit, humor and insight. That goes for about 95 percent of the audience. The other five percent are why the 'Delete' option and restraining orders were invented."

"Anya looked upon Nin admirably. Having him as a partner-in-crime—if only on this one occasion, which she hoped would only be the start of something more—was more revitalizing than the cheap thrills of a cookie-cutter shallow, superficial romance, where the top priority was how beautiful a person was on the outside."

"A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight andunderstanding."

"My father once told me that it’s not enough for a man to be lucky; that a guy has to know when that streak is on for him."

"Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding."

"The most intriguing people you will encounter in this life are the people who had insights about you, that you didn't know about yourself."

"Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself."

"Humor is the affectionate communication of insight."

"I would rather be able to appreciate things I cannot have than to have things I am not able to appreciate."

"I don’t care what Einstein said about God not playing dice; If he exists, he’s addicted to craps."

"Never give advice unless you have walked the walk, because anybody can talk the talk."

"To know a man's library is, in some measure, to know a man's mind."

"You don't read Gatsby, I said, to learn whether adultery is good or bad but to learn about how complicated issues such as adultery and fidelity and marriage are. A great novel heightens your senses and sensitivity to the complexities of life and of individuals, and prevents you from the self-righteousness that sees morality in fixed formulas about good and evil."

"Nothing carries meaning. People carry meaning. We are the porters of importance."

"Because it's much more pleasant to be obsessed over how the hero gets out of his predicament than it is over how I get out of mine."

"Any man filled with empathy is capable of gaining valuable insights on the human condition through the suffering of others. You do not need to suffer to know suffering, but you need empathy first to identify and feel the suffering of others around you."

"Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. It is, one is told, the unforgivable sin, but it is a sin the corrupt or evil man never practices. He always has hope. He never reaches the freezing-point of knowing absolute failure. Only the man of goodwill carries always in his heart this capacity for damnation."

"The erruption of feelings & emotions that follows a near-death exerience, or any event that causes us to stop & look deeply at the reality of our lives, is ripe with the potential for insight & clarity."