Insight Quotes
Of course language is not an infallible guide, but it contains, with all its defects, a good deal of stored insight and experience.
Even in the most purely logical realms, it is insight that first arrives at what is new.
Only when inspired to go beyond consciousness by some extraordinary insight does beauty manifest unexpectedly.
When you're conscious and writing from a place of insight and simplicity and real caring about the truth, you have the ability to throw the lights on for your reader.
Science...is part and parcel of our knowledge and obscures our insight only when it holds that the understanding given by it is the only kind there is.
It occurs to her that she should record this flash of insight in her journal - otherwise she is sure to forget, for she is someone who is always learning and forgetting and obliged to learn again.
The best way in the world to deceive believers is to cloak a message in religious language and declare that it conveys some new insight from God.
Every experience of love, bliss, belonging, inspiration, and insight provides a stepping stone back to your true self.
The characters get challenged. Through getting challenged, the character arrives at insights or discovers potentials that he or she didn't know they had.
...from this day forward until the day you are buried, do two things each day. First, master a difficult old insight, and second, add some new piece of knowledge to the world each day.
The original insight is most likely to come when elements stored in different compartments of the mind drift into the open, jostle one another, and now and then form new combinations.
It is absolutely impossible for a subject to see or have insight into something while leaving itself out of the picture, so impossible that knowing and being are the most opposite of all spheres.
... the true seeing is within; and painting stares at you with an insistent imperfection.
All bad Literature rests upon imperfect insight, or upon imitation, which may be defined as seeing at second-hand.
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.
There is not a discovery in science, however revolutionary, however sparkling with insight, that does not arise out of what went before.
The vulgar herd catches at the gross apparent fact, but the man of insight knows what lies on the surfaces does lie.
What is speed? The sports press often confuses speed with insight. See, if I start running slightly earlier than someone else, I seem faster.
If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.
Our searches for numerical order lead as often to terminal nuttiness as to profound insight.
I collect names for characters. Names are valuable; they can be your first source of insight into a character.
Characterization requires self-knowledge, insight into human nature . . . it is more than impersonation.
I don't have the insight with the Longhorns that I do with the two teams that I own, but as a fan and reading the sports pages, I'm bullish about the Longhorns.
The authentic insight and experience of any human soul, were it but insight and experience in hewing of wood and drawing of water, is real knowledge, a real possession and acquirement.
Adam Smith's key insight was that both parties to an exchange can benefit and that, so long as cooperation is strictly voluntary, no exchange can take place unless both parties do benefit.
Martin Luther King was a human being with a brilliant mind, a powerful heart, and insight, and courage and also with a sense of humor. So he was accessible.
If you never ask yourself any questions about the meaning of a passage, you cannot expect the book to give you any insight you do not already possess.
For the classics philosophical insight was the product of a life of leisure; for me a life of leisure is the product of philosophical insight.
It is commonly the case with technologies that you can get the best insight about how they work by watching them fail.
An artist is someone who uses bravery, insight, creativity, and boldness to challenge the status quo. And an artist takes it personally.
Your sight must become an insight; it must be turned within and used to purify and clarify your mind.
Insight into the two selves within a man clears up many confusions and contradictions. It was our understanding that preceded our victory.
If I have any insight at all to contribute it is this: find out what you are really good at and stick to it.
Too soon did the doctors of the church forget that the heart--the moral nature--was the beginning and the end, and that truth, knowledge, and insight were comprehended in its expansion.
If you wish to assured of the truth of Christianity, try it. Believe, and if thy belief be right, that insight which gradually transmutes faith into knowledge will be the reward of thy belief.
The good pupils are often brilliant, and they keep you on your toes and take you to the limits of your knowledge. The worst pupils provide a unique insight into the criminal mind.
The insight is born with anxiety, guilt and the joy and gratification that is inseparable from the actualizing of a new idea or vision.
We are as humans essentially products of our hardware - that is an insight that I've taken with me into the trading side.
Dating is a social brain teaser, as it requires constantly changing ratios of intimacy and distance, an erotic mental cha-cha choreographed by chemistry, insight, and fear.
I do not hesitate to read. all good books in translations. What is really best in any book is translatable-any real insight or broad human sentiment.
Instead of insight, maybe all a man gets is strength to wander for a while. Maybe the only gift is a chance to inquire, to know nothing for certain. An inheritance of wonder and nothing more.
Tolerance gives us spiritual insight, which is as far from fanaticism as the north pole is from the south.
Ages when custom is unsettled are necessarily ages of prophecy. The moralist cannot teach what is revealed; he must reveal what can be taught. He has to seek insight rather than to preach.
One can always learn from others. The Champion's Mind holds a wealth of insight as to how you can become a winner in your everyday life.