Insight Quotes

Unless we regain the art of silence and insight, the ability for nonactivity, unless we substitute true leisure for our hectic amusements, we will destroy our culture and ourselves.

We are trapped by language to such a degree that every attempt to formulate insight is a play on words.

Insight must precede application.

Objectivity is a subject's delusion that observing can be done without him.

Our lives are shaped as much by those who leave us as they are by those who stay. Loss is our legacy. Insight is our gift. Memory is our guide

This is the real power of habit: the insight that your habits are what you choose them to be.

There was such a difference, he thought, between the beauty that illuminated, and the beauty that was illuminated.

You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light.

For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it; it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and idiots, especially during youth.

The man who craves disciples and wants followers is always more or less of a charlatan. The man of genuine worth and insight wants to be himself; and he wants others to be themselves, also.

A mode of knowledge rooted in silence and intuitive insight which gives meaning to life but which cannot be explained in rational terms.

Thank the Lord for using each person as a tool in your life to deepen your insight into His grace and conforming you to the image of His Son.

What good are insights? They only make things worse.

The goal is to turn data into information, and information into insight.

You have to make mistakes to find out who you aren't. You take the action, and the insight follows: You don't think your way into becoming yourself.

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.

No one wants to know how clever you are. They don't want an insight into your mind, thrilling as it might be. They want an insight into their own.

God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.

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.

My aim in painting is to create pulsating, luminous, and open surfaces that emanate a mystic light, in accordance with my deepest insight into the experience of life and nature.

The Lord looks on his servants with pity and not with blame. In God's sight we do not fall; in our sight, we do not stand. Both of these are true, but the deeper insight belongs to God.

General improvisations often give actors an insight beyond their words by helping them to 'see the word' and achieve a reality for the scene.

Primates will continue to play social games without the least insight into what is killing them.

The genius of Man in our time has gone into jet-propulsion, atom-splitting, penicillin-curing, etc. There is none left over for works of imagination; of spiritual insight or mystical enlightenment.

Insight without action is worthless.

What good are Greek, commentaries, insight, gift, and all the rest, if there is no heart for Christ?

I listened to a lot of old school, golden era music. It gave me a lot of insight on how to rap and give my all.

Knowledge is the rediscovering of our own insight.

The purpose of visualization is insight, not pictures

The more experience and insight I obtain into human nature, the more convinced do I become that the greater portion of a man is purely animal.

Living in the world without insight into the hidden laws of nature is like not knowing the language of the country in which one was born.

The only way to win is to work, work, work, work, and hope to have a few insights

Among the problems with shame was that it in fact did not make you shorter or quieter or less visible. You just felt like you were.

It takes a person of great care and insight to watch for any abnormality in the green grass even while it grows abundantly and healthily.

There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

Instead of insight, maybe all a man gets is strength to wander for a while.

Writers of comedy have outlook, whereas writers of tragedy have, according to them, insight.

For the spiritual being, intuition is far more than a hunch. It is viewed as guidance or as God talking, and this inner insight is never taken lightly or ignored.

I sometimes think there is a dimension beyond the four of experience and Einstein: insight, that fifth dimension which promises to liberate us from bondage to the long, imperfect past

The colossal misunderstanding of our time is the assumption that insight will work with people who are unmotivated to change.

Come on. I don't have any problem violating my own insights in practice.

It's easy to get lost in endless speculation. So today, release the need to know why things happen as they do. Instead, ask for the insight to recognize what you're meant to learn.

Watch the functioning of your own mind in a calm and detached manner so you can gain insight into your own behavior.

A stumble may prevent a fall.

At the moment of insight, a potential pattern of organized behavior comes into being.

Schooling deprived of religious insights is wretched education.

Prayer does not change God, it changes us. It deepens insight, increases intuitive perception, expands consciousness. It transforms personality.

Give me insight into today and you may have the antique and future worlds.

The first act of insight is throw away the labels.

Although natural farming - since it can teach people to cultivate a deep understanding of nature - may lead to spiritual insight, it's not strictly a spiritual practice.