Top 100 Quotes About Insight
#2. It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes ... we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones. - Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
#3. Allah causes the night and the day to succeed each other. Truly, in these things is indeed a lesson for those who have insight.
Anonymous
#4. Lasting fulfillment is attained only through gaining insight into the core of our human nature, unleashing the power to understand, appreciate, and enjoy our lives at the deepest level.
Tony Robbins
#5. My work is to reach people with ideas, hopes, dreams, encouragement, insight, and revelation. That's what an actor wants to do.
John Astin
#6. The purported insight achieved by the patient is not the product of a process of veridical self-discovery, but rather reflects the patient's conversion to the therapist's interpretation.
Adolf Grunbaum
#7. Watch the functioning of your own mind in a calm and detached manner so you can gain insight into your own behavior.
Henepola Gunaratana
#9. Her brain was a storm, her usual insight gone.
Alice Sebold
#10. Dialogue with the self is the source of all insight and insight is the only thing that can change your life.
Oli Anderson
#11. Creativity and insight almost always involve an experience of acute pattern recognition: the eureka moment in which we perceive the interconnection between disparate concepts or ideas to reveal something new.
Jason Silva
#12. The most fertile source of insight is hindsight.
Morris Kline
#13. To understand the whole operation of one's own mind requires a great deal of insight, a great deal of inquiry without condemnation.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#14. Living gives you a better understanding of life. I would hope that my characters have become deeper and more rounded personalities. Wider travels have given me considerably greater insight into how cultural differences affect not only people, but politics and art.
Alan Dean Foster
#15. When people are on the same page, when they agree wholeheartedly, when they see eye to eye, very little learning actually takes place. Insight and learning only occur when what we experience in the moment conflicts, clashes with, or expands our awareness beyond what we know or take for granted.
Jeffrey Russell
#16. In some strange way, any new fact or insight that I may have found has not seemed to me as a "discovery" of mine, but rather something that had always been there and that I had chanced to pick up.
Subrahmanijan Chandrasekhar
#17. And as he feels himself falling asleep he has an insight he believes is important, which he hopes he will remember in the morning, although it is one of those thoughts that seldom survive translation to the language of daylight hours
Jay McInerney
#18. I wrote the book not to prove people wrong but just to get the insight on who I am as a person.
Terrell Owens
#19. IT has to provide both business and technological insight into how they bring success to the company as a whole transparently, holistically, and continually.
Pearl Zhu
#20. Ontario is fortunate to have the expertise, insight and leadership of The Honourable David C. Onley. I look forward to working with him to promote an inclusive, accessible Ontario that will help strengthen our province's economy.
Brad Duguid
#21. Zen insight is not our awareness, but Being's awareness of itself in us.
Thomas Merton
#22. I early arrived at the insight that when no answer comes from within to the problems and complexities of life, they ultimately mean very little. Outward circumstances are no substitute for inner experience.
C. G. Jung
#23. Intuition is not a special source of ineffable insight: it is the womb of articulated understanding.
Michael Dummett
#24. I really love learning about animals. I pull from a deck of spirit animal cards. You pull one, and it's about 50 or 60 different animals, and then that day you read whichever animal you pull. And it kind of gives you insight.
Brie Larson
#25. It isn't more light we need, it isn't more truth, and it isn't more scientific data. It is more Christ, more courage, more spiritual insight to act on the light we have.
Benjamin E. Mays
#26. We think we learn from teachers, and we sometimes do. But the teachers are not always to be found in school or in great laboratories. Sometimes what we learn depends upon our own powers of insight.
Loren Eiseley
#27. We have the insight and the tools to identify and bring to fruition the dormant talent that our artists possess. Favored Nations will be branded as the home base for inspired musical talent.
Steve Vai
#28. Knowledge is wisdom that comes from acquiring truth. Insight is wisdom that comes from living out the truth we acquire. Discernment is wisdom that comes from the Holy Spirit's reminders of that knowledge and insight.
Lysa TerKeurst
#29. Discovery is the journey; insight is the destination.
Gary Hamel
#30. We sometimes have a flash of understanding that amounts to the insight of genius, and yet it slowly withers, even in our hands - like a flower. The form remains, but the colours and the fragrance are gone.
Robert Musil
#31. Like most artists and musicians, I considered myself detached from the political life ... but I had an insight that maybe we would have a political contribution to make in the future.
Gilberto Gil
#32. Those who have obtained the farthest insight into Nature have been, in all ages, firm believers in God.
William Whewell
#33. The possibilities for creation and insight are endless. We're constantly collecting more data, and it's starting to be very relevant to our lives.
Aaron Koblin
#34. After a certain period of time, when I had acquired more insight into the Fuehrer's personality, I gave him my hand and said: "I unite my fate with yours for better or for worse: I dedicate myself to you in good times and in bad, even unto death." I really meant it-and still do.
Hermann Goring
#35. Being snarky and smug doesn't equate to providing insight, and there's more than one occasion when the filmmakers lose sight of this in their zeal to spread the Gospel According to Maher.
James Berardinelli
#36. I knew many Marines had done brave deeds that no one saw and for which they got no medals at all. I was having a very hard time carrying those medals and didn't have the insight or maturity to know what to do with my combination of guilt and pride.
Karl Marlantes
#37. Josh Hanagarne has an astonishing story to tell, and he does so with insight, humor, grace, and wonder. All human beings suffer and struggle. Through the lens of his own miraculous experiences, Mr. Hanagarne illuminates the path to joy and the infinite possibilities of transcendence.
Melanie Rae Thon
#38. Books are useless! I only ever read one book, To Kill A Mockingbird, and it gave me absolutely no insight on how to kill mockingbirds! - Homer Simpson
Matt Groening
#39. Delivering unique creativity is hardest of all, because not only do you have to have insight, but you also need to be passionate enough to risk the rejection that delivering a solution can bring. You must ship.
Seth Godin
#40. Much insight into himself could have been gained from contemplation of these things, but Wintrow reined his mind away from it. Perhaps he did not want to know himself quite that well."
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Robin Hobb
#41. I love Italy. For hundreds of years, if not centuries, the people of italy (Italians) have been living here." [Audrey's insight]
Tom Gleisner
#42. How many voices have escaped you until now, the venting furnace, the floorboards underfoot, the steady accusations of the clock numbering the minutes no one will mark. The terrible clarity this moment brings, the useless insight, the unbroken dark.
Dana Gioia
#43. Wealth creation is not a business suited to those whose skill set
consists of voting "present." It requires decision making, risk taking,
hard information, discipline, insight, and intelligence.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
#44. To make a decision, all you need is authority. To make a good decision, you also need knowledge, experience, and insight.
Denise Moreland
#45. You've got to choose your horse ahead of time. So, if you're interested in water technology, energy technology, you get to choose between the three or four companies that you have insight into. And you have to make a bet on them before they prove anything out.
Peter Diamandis
#46. When you begin to see that your enemy is suffering, that is the beginning of insight.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#47. New insight begins when satisfaction comes to an end, when all that has been seen, said, or done looks like a distortion ... Man's true fulfillment depends on communion with that which transcends him.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
#48. Insight doesn't happen often on the click of the moment, like a lucky snapshot, but comes in its own time and more slowly and from nowhere but within.
Eudora Welty
#49. Attack politics costs us dearly in terms of insight into the candidates. In a presidential campaign, the focus is so tight that the politicians are afraid to say anything that hasn't been scripted.
Jack Germond
#50. The use of the term art medium is, to say the least, misleading, for it is the artist that creates a work of art not the medium. It is the artist in photography that gives form to content by a distillation of ideas, thought, experience, insight and understanding.
Edward Steichen
#51. Self sufficiency appears to be a worthy goal, but it's now impossible if you want to actually get anything done. All our productivity, leverage and insight comes from being part of a community, not apart from it. The goal, I think, is to figure out how to become more dependent, not less.
Seth Godin
#52. When would insight, knowledge, hope, and beauty meld?
Larry Kramer
#53. It's great to get insight into the era of 80's rock-n-roll via a treasure trove
of photographs skillfully captured in front of Mark Weiss' camera lens. This
event is the perfect time capsule for Mark's work finally being released
upon the masses in 2012.
Phil Collen
#54. What is required is sight and insight- then you might add one more: excite.
Robert Frost
#55. It [MDMA] takes away the feelings of self-hatred and condemnation, which are the biggest obstacles to insight ... For reasons we don't understand, MDMA allows people to do this, typically in one [psychotherapeutic] session.
Ann Shulgin
#56. The next great idea for your work will probably not come from watching your competitors, but from taking an insight from an unrelated industry and applying it to your own.
Todd Henry
#57. There is no greater insight into the future than recognizing ... when we save our children, we save ourselves
Margaret Mead
#58. The true goal of human activity was the creation of a world-wide community of awakened and intelligently creative persons, related by mutual insight and respect, and by the common task of fulfilling the potentiality of the human spirit on earth.
Olaf Stapledon
#59. There is a lot of noise and conflict in our political discourse, which is fun to cover, but I'm convinced from my travels that people also thirst for more details as well as insight and context.
John King
#60. Gaining insight into one's underlying motives, it seems, is more like a belief conversion than a self-discovery process
Albert Bandura
#61. I am grateful for - though I can't keep up with - the flood of articles, theses, and textbooks that mean to share insight concerning the nature of poetry.
A.R. Ammons
#62. Subcreation is not just a desire, but a need and a right; it renews our vision and gives us new perspective and insight into ontological questions that might otherwise escape our notice within the default assumptions we make about reality.
Mark J.P. Wolf
#63. Alan Kay's famous aphorism is that perspective is worth 80 IQ points. An innovative insight is not the product of an individual's brilliance. It's not as if innovators' heads are wired in different ways. Innovation typically comes from looking at the world through a slightly different lens.
Gary Hamel
#64. Since each child reads only about six hundred books in the course of childhood, each book should nourish them in some way - with new ideas, insight, humor, or vocabulary.
Joan Aiken
#65. After having read a lot of fiction, literature, whatever you want to call it, from Wolfe to Houellebecq, I think you have to have an understanding and insight of the human condition that is informed and motivated by a desire to immerse yourself in the human world and bring these stories to bear.
Henry Rollins
#66. A man of correct insight among those who are duped and deluded resembles one whose watch is right while all the clocks in the town give the wrong time.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#67. The Lord can accomplish much more through prayer than any teacher can through teaching, and many times He will also bring great insight within that context.
Dutch Sheets
#68. No theoretician, no writer on art, however interesting he or she might be, could be as interesting as Picasso. A good writer on art may give you an insight to Picasso, but, after all, Picasso was there first.
David Hockney
#69. I recognize myself to be an intensely naive person. Most novelists are, despite frequent pretensions to deep socio-political insight.
Zadie Smith
#70. A strategic board has a view of looking ahead, an insight to look deeper, and competency to look beyond.
Pearl Zhu
#71. When we look at the past from beyond the perspective of sadness and error, without judgment, without right or wrong, understanding it was part of our chosen experience, then the past is healed. And by healing I mean that it is seen with wisdom and insight rather than judgment and scorn.
Linda Hoppe
#73. Coming up with a good idea, with an insight into the way the world works that is really new and that you really believe in, is a deeply satisfying experience.
Paul Krugman
#74. In this way, the Gospel of Mary holds up Mary as a model for Christian leadership based on spiritual maturity and prophetic insight. It is because she has achieved spiritual maturity that she is able to teach and care for the others.
R.S. Sugirtharajah
#75. Friend, when you understand why Jesus does certain things in your life, then you will develop true insight into how greatly He cares for you.
Charles F. Stanley
#76. Knowing that one is always capable of change, the second step lies in making the decision to change. Change does not occur by merely willing it anymore than behavior changes simply through insight.
Leo Buscaglia
#77. When women criticized men, I called it 'insight' ... When men criticized women, I called it 'sexism' and 'backlash.'
Warren Farrell
#78. All of us must cross the line between ignorance and insight many times before we truly understand.
David Hawkins
#79. I'd long thought that a surfeit of sensitivity could be a killing thing, too much insight malignant in its own right. The best survivors
there are studies that show it
are those blessed with an inordinate ability to deny. And keep on marching.
Jonathan Kellerman
#80. The insight of polytheism is conducive to far-reaching religious tolerance.
Yuval Noah Harari
#81. Like the priestly cult of the Middle Ages, the modern priestly cult of "scientific" psychotherapists exist overwhelmingly to stultify or blunt a too-acute insight into the powers benumbed in our personalities by our prevailing culture.
Kenny Smith
#82. The insight at the root of artificial intelligence was that these "bits" (manipulated by computers) could just as well stand as symbols for concepts that the machine would combine by the strict rules of logic or the looser associations of psychology.
Daniel Crevier
#83. I was reared in a pub - as a young fellow, serving in the pub I learnt far more there about human nature than I learnt in any university or school. I think it gave me a great insight into people.
Brian Cowen
#84. People thought that tragedy made you wise, that it automatically elevated you to a higher, more spiritual level, but it seemed to Rachel that just the opposite was true. Tragedy made you petty and spiteful. It didn't give you any great knowledge or insight.
Liane Moriarty
#85. The great conservative insight is that order is really hard to achieve. It's really precious, and it's really easy to lose.
Jonathan Haidt
#86. The intelligent person depends on his own insight; he trusts his own being. He loves and respects himself.
Rajneesh
#87. I read the first book about five times while I was preparing for the role. I really wanted to completely embody Lissa and, naturally the book gave me much deeper psychological and emotional insight into Lissa than the script.
Lucy Fry
#88. Be humble, desire insight, squash arrogance, and be cognizance of unknown.
Pearl Zhu
#89. When we hear these kinds of excuses from a drunk, we assume they are exactly that - excuses. We don't consider an active alcoholic a reliable source of insight. So why should we let an angry and controlling man be the authority on partner abuse?
Lundy Bancroft
#90. This demand follows from an insight that I was the first to articulate: that there are no moral facts.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#91. Theological study offers a level of thinking about God recalling the insight of Abraham Heschel who noted that thinking without roots will bear flowers, but not fruits.
Anonymous
#92. I think that if there's one key insight science can bring to fiction, it's that fiction - the study of the human condition - needs to broaden its definition of the human condition. Because the human condition isn't immutable and doomed to remain uniform forever.
Charles Stross
#93. Art is about the spontaneous connection of the artist to his own unconscious - about insight beyond reason. If his insight were reasonable, anyone could do it, but anyone cannot. Only few can, and they are called.
David Mamet
#94. The most difficult task for anyone wandering through a foreign land with the hope of gaining some insight into it is the profound need to come to terms with the lives and thoughts of strangers.
Simon Winchester
#95. Your anger will cool into hardened passionate insight if you wait a day. Most of the things that make me angry I let them sit. The heat that remains will be sufficient. The stuff that evaporates is the stuff that would have simply offended or made it histrionic.
Keith Olbermann
#96. If you can be aware that you have a living body, and notice when there's tension in your body, that's already an important insight.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#97. I shared this insight with some other boat owners, and they all agreed that, definitely, putting your boar into the water is asking for trouble. Most of them have had their boats sitting in their driveways long enough to be registered historical landmarks.
Dave Barry
#98. Sometimes you have intuitive insight about how you think things are going to be, and you write that. Other times you fantasize completely, which has nothing to do with predicting the future.
Ray Bradbury
#99. The golden rule for understanding spiritually is not intellect, but obedience. If a man wants scientific knowledge, intellectual curiosity is his guide; but if he wants insight into what Jesus Christ teaches, he can only get it by obedience.
Oswald Chambers
#100. There is the old catch-22 line that a mentally unstable person can't know, as per their illness, that they are unstable. But that was wrong. You can and do have the insight to see your own crazy.
Harlan Coben
