Insight Quotes

Think and then think what you have thought. Is it really what you had thought. Think again.

Yesterday's truth is today's bullshit. Even yesterday's liberating insight is today's jail of stale explanation.

Speed is often confused with insight. When I start running earlier than the others, I appear faster.

Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.

...Forgiving is not having to understand. Understanding may come later, in fragments, an insight here and a glimpse there, after forgiving.

Be aware of your inner voice and follow it, even though most of the time it will tell you the most uncomfortable path to choose.

Liberation exists- and you will never be liberated.

It's our very capacity for self-consciousness that makes us self-destructive!

The highest exercise of imagination is not to devise what has no existence, but rather to perceive what really exists, though unseen by the outward eye-not creation, but insight.

The quest for the truth, in and of itself, Is a story that's filled with insights.

A dynamic struggle goes on within a person between what he or she consciously thinks on the one hand and, on the other, some insight, some perspective that is struggling to be born.

To be a scholar of mathematics you must be born with talent, insight, concentration, taste, luck, drive and the ability to visualize and guess.

Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

The zest for life, which is the source of all passion and all insight, even divine, does not come to us from ourselves.... It is God who has to give us the impulse of wanting him.

Freedom can never be comprehended, nor even can insight into it be gained.

We become compassionate not from altruism which denies the self for the sake of the other, but from the insight that sees and feels one is the other.

The worst part a man can suffer is to have insight into much and power over nothing.

Knowing many things doesn't teach insight.

A true leader is not someone who feels fully informed but someone who continuously receives insight and guidance.

We have to have a special insight, or we'll put it in the 'too tough' basket. All of you have to look for a special area of competency and focus on that.

Thich Nhat Hanh is one of the greatest teachers of our time. He reaches from the heights of insight down to the deepest places of the absolutely ordinary.

We see through others only when we see through ourselves.

I would like my book to give people insight to the war before and after, but I don't think anyone could read my book and suddenly make up her mind about the war. I want to write for everybody.

Penetrative insight joined with calm abiding utterly eradicates afflicted states.

Those who have obtained the farthest insight into Nature have been, in all ages, firm believers in God.

What sets you apart from the rest of humanity is your ability to give visual form to an idea - the skill to transform it into something more than merely the insight or perception alone.

Man will become better when you show him what he is like.

The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action.

The insight to see possible new paths, the courage to try them, the judgment to measure results - these are the qualities of a leader.

Effective questioning brings insight, which fuels curiosity, which cultivates wisdom.

Typography is to literature as musical performance is to composition: an essential act of interpretation, full of endless opportunities for insight or obtuseness.

Then comes the insight that All is God. One still realizes that the world is as it was, but it does not matter, it does not affect one's faith.

Analyzing through special insight and realizing the lack of inherent existence constitute understanding of the signless.

Self examination is the key to insight, which is the key to wisdom

The essence of profound insight is simplicity.

In the advertising business, a good idea can inspire a great commercial. But a good insight can fuel a thousand ideas, a thousand commercials.

Great insight comes from seeing something as odd and finding out why.

The secret of man's success resides in his insight into the moods of people, and his tact in dealing with them.

Break the glass, please, and free us from all these damned rules, from needing to find an explanation for everything, from doing only what others approve of.

When we practice metta, we open continuously to the truth of our actual experience, changing our relationship to life.

The most important thing is insight, that is to be - curious - to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does.

Everything is given by God. All talent, creativity, ability, insight, and strength comes from him. In our own strength we can do nothing.

The simpler the insight, the more profound the conclusion.

O Allah! If I cannot always understand Your wisdom in what You decree, please let me at least have the insight to accept it and be content with it.

The perpetual danger which besets religion is that it may substitute gentility and aestheticism for prophetic insight and power.

Without the imaginative insight which goes with creative literature, history cannot be intelligibly written.

It is astonishingly beautiful and interesting, how thought is absent when you have an insight. Thought cannot have an insight.

Gaining insight into one's underlying motives, it seems, is more like a belief conversion than a self-discovery process

When I work a game as an analyst, all I do is look at the game like a coach. Why was something successful? What makes it work? I just try to use my expertise and whatever insight I have to the game.

You the girl I been lookin' for my whole life God bless me, I'm glad I got the insight Because of you girl, now I understand life