Insight Quotes

Generally speaking, it is inhumane to detain a fleeting insight.

Omigod,' I said on a sudden flash of sleep-deprived insight. 'You're the big bad wolf.' There are some similarities.

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.

The voice says, maybe you don't go to hell for the things you do. Maybe you go to hell for the things you don't do. The things you don't finish.

In retrospect, perhaps the biggest reason my mother was cared for but not helped for twenty years was the simplest: Her functioning was not that necessary to the world.

I've always been fascinated by weather.

A tornado of thought is unleashed after each new insight. This in turn results in an earthquake of assumptions. These are natural disasters that re-shape the spirit.

Consequences lost all purchase when they became mad. And desperation, when pressed beyond anguish, became narcotic.

Something ... made him feel small, not in the way of orphans or beggars or children, but in a good way. In the way of souls.

Understanding requires insight. Insight must be anchored.

Her mind is an unquiet one, words and thoughts and impulses constantly crashing into each other.

Not everybody has a talent for painting, or for the piano, or for dance. But we can write our way into the artist's head and into his problems and solutions. Or we can go there with another writer.

Questions of personal priority, however interesting they may be to the persons concerned, sink into insignificance in the prospect of any gain of deeper insight into the secrets of nature.

The truth is, you can never really know a man until you've loaned him money. And you can never know a woman until you've slept in her bed.

Any supreme insight is a metaphor.

The normal objective of my thought affords no insight into the dark places of human will and feeling.

I like reading novels because it provides insight into human behavior.

Nima Shirazi is a rare voice of rational analysis and political insight that provides an eloquent counter to the pervasive absurdities that make up popular political discourse.

Just as science is more immediate and exciting than the history of science, so is insight more compelling than a history of insight.

Do poets have any insight into what's the right ratio? I doubt it, but I think that they can be awake to what the ends are.

I recognize myself to be an intensely naive person. Most novelists are, despite frequent pretensions to deep socio-political insight.

Imagination, which in truth Is but another name for absolute power And clearest insight, amplitude of mind, And reason, in her most exalted mood.

When we sit down to work, we become like a magnetized rod that attracts iron filings. Ideas come. Insights accrete.

Imagination is the means of deep insight and sympathy, the power to conceive and express images removed from normal objective reality.

Violence can behave like a disease. That insight gives a different frame of reference that is designed to take the judgment out of it, to take the good-versus-bad-people view out of it.

Insight that dawns slowly seems to me to have more lasting effects than a fitful idealism, which is unlikely to hold out for long.

Insight comes at a moment of transition between work and relaxation.

Absorbing and haunting! BOGEYMAN spills creepily across the page with Steve Jackson's hellacious verve and insight, reminding us there are few better explorers of the American berserk.

You get more insight as you get older, on everything. I kind of woke up one morning and was like, 'Oh I see what's happening, I get everything'. I woke up and was like, 'I get it, I'm a product'.

When Caesar says, 'Do this', it is performed.

I had a little insight into life that most kids probably didn't have. My mother was a schoolteacher, and my father was a social worker. Through his eyes I saw the underside of society.

Most photographs, to me, are description, but they lack insight.

In coming to understand anything we are rejecting the facts as they are for us in favour of the facts as they are.

The key, I suppose, has less to do with insight than with willingness, the former being relatively useless without the latter.

My experiences with dope were not good for me. I had to go another route. Because in my experience, dope didn't give me those insights.

More time [to decide] without more information just creates anxiety, not insight.

We who are of mature age seldom suspect how unmercifully and yet with what insight the very young judge us.

The danger is to stupidly believe that depicting facts gives us much insight. If facts were the only thing that counted, the telephone directory would be the book of books.

Perhaps marketing is about to transition to a new kind of profession, one that requires insight, dedication and smarts.

Becoming adept at the process of self inquiry and symbolic insight is a vital spiritual task that leads to the growth of faith in oneself.

Ageing is a process of exchanging hope for insight

It's probably your fiercest critics - not your compatriots - who have the sharpest, most resonant insights.

When I was younger, I was actually looking forward to getting older, to have more insight, more understanding.

I wrote the book not to prove people wrong but just to get the insight on who I am as a person.

There were many at Bell Labs and MIT who compared Shannon's insight to Einstein's. Others found that comparison unfair - unfair to Shannon.

I look for people who have insight in places where I don't.

Being English definitely gave me some insight into these eccentric Brits puttering around Hollywood.

I tell people that I'm a Christian, but I don't think it's giving an insight into who I am or what I'm about.

In a way, this kind of insight or recognition often permeates the way I think of character, how I plot action, and the way in which I use imagery, seeing binaries as false.

Shannon's most radical insight was that meaning was irrelevant.