Insight Quotes
I was a sinner. I knew that without a doubt. But I was not alone. And the night was the accomplice of us all.
Modern Existentialism... is a total European creation, perhaps the last philosophic legacy of Europe to America or whatever other civilization is now on its way to supplant Europe.
There is not a single true work of art that has not in the end added to the inner freedom insight and life of each person who has known and loved it.
Not a few patients, however, suffering from certain forms of mental disorder, regain a high degree of insight into their mental condition in what might be termed a flash of divine enlightenment.
For honest insight into who you are, don't ask yourself what your priorities are for next week. Ask what your priorities were last week.
In the window, I fantasize... about providing grown-ups and children alike with the greatest gift of all: insight.
Insight enables you to know your own heart. Clarity enables you to accept without illusion.
Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs?
I think people who write programs do have at least a glimmer of extra insight into the nature of God... because creating a program often means that you have to create a small universe
The sciences are said, and they are truly said, to have a mutual connection, that any one of them may be the better understood, for an insight into the rest.
Yoga teaching is that you're not your dark side or your woo-woo, you're pure awareness. Our job is to begin to gain that discrimination and insight so we can separate from our identification.
That kind of peer learning, that peer teaching, that peer evaluation, and then administration of insight.
What is needed desperately today is prophetic insight. Scholars can interpret the past; it takes prophets to interpret the present.
So would a Being, endowed with higher insight and more perfect intelligence, watching man and his doings, smile about man's illusion that he was acting according to his own free will.
Gnosticism was stamped out completely and its remnants are so badly mangled that special study is needed to get any insight at all into its inner meaning.
To be No. 1 on the 'New York Times' best-seller list, well, that's alarming. Having been a stand-up comedian, I think it's surprising to a lot of people that I had the insight I had.
Ritual is the most primitive reflection of serious thought, a slow deposit, as it were, of people's imaginative insight into life.
A woman should never underestimate the power of the child in the man. Sometimes the child seems to be in the driver's seat at the very moment when all a man's adult judgment and insight is needed.
To learn and think; to think and live; to live and learn: this always, with new insight, new understanding, and new love.
There is only one Art, whose sole criterion is the power, the authenticity, the revelatory insight, the courage and suggestiveness with which it seeks its truth.
Any teacher can study books, but books do not necessarily bring wisdom, nor that human insight essential to consummate teaching skills.
It is true that the present is powerfully shaped by the past. But it is also true that ... insight at any age keeps us from singing the same sad songs again.
Initiating and going through a divorce with four kids can be a brutal experience, but also a tempering one. It gave me perspective and insight to be able to find the love of my life.
Everything can be seen directly except the eye through which we see.
Whether the bear beats the wolf or the wolf beats the bear, the rabbit always loses.
Frederick Buechner is one of my favorite writers. The Eyes of the Heart is beautiful and wise, full of insight, charm, and tenderness.
To look for some kind of insight or meaning in pop songs is not really - well there's plenty of other places where you should probably look first before you start looking for it in a pop song.
Omigod,' I said on a sudden flash of sleep-deprived insight. 'You're the big bad wolf.' There are some similarities.
No emotion or insight is too small to inflict on the world. Let it all fly. Don't let it eat you from the inside.
So often actors only mix with actors, which is quite incestuous, and doesn't give them the insight into how other people work.
This food-and-shelter theory concerning man's efforts is without insight. The desire for praise is more imperative than the desire for food and shelter
The creative man with an insight into human nature, with the artistry to touch and move people, will succeed. Without them he will fail.
I aim to be translucent, so you don't notice the words, just their meaning. I haven't much insight into people's motivations.
Mike Holmes is insanely talented and his work bristles with the kind of humanity and insight that is rare in comics – or in humans, for that matter.
Elizabeth Hay has intelligence coming out of her fingertips - integrity, insight, and wonder in every paragraph of her writing.She connects. She stirs and provokes.
One should have insight into this world of dreams that passes in the twinkling of an eye.
What always seems miraculous is when aesthetic necessities yield an insight which otherwise I would have missed.
Access to your true essence will give you insight into the mirror of relationship, because all relationship is a reflection of your relationship with yourself.
But when you get to know a character so well, you start to have insights that you can't show because you're confined to your script of your hit show.
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.
If you have no eyes, do not walk blindly; take a staff in your hand. If you have no staff of insight, do not walk without a guide.
A fierce brief fusion which dreamers call real, and realists, an illusion; an insight like the flight of birds.