Famous quotes containing the words generation and/or insight:
“One generation abandons the enterprises of another like stranded vessels.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and where previously the brain held a dead fact, the soul grasps a living truth! At moments we are all artists.”
—Arnold Bennett (1867–1931)