Insight Quotes

The mercy of the West has been social revolution; the mercy of the East has been individual insight into the basic self/void.

The Next Right Thing has humanity, humor, and insight to burn. Author Dan Barden takes the clay of the California hard-boiled novel and shapes it into something new.

The plain people, hereafter as in the past, will continue to make their own language, and the best that grammarians can do is to follow after it, haltingly, and not often with much insight into it.

There is the old catch-22 line that a mentally unstable person can't know, as per their illness, that they are unstable. But that was wrong. You can and do have the insight to see your own crazy.

Self-pity gets you nowhere. But insight to see that something can be done with the second-bests and adventurous daring to try might be a handle to take hold of.

In the last resort, sheer insight is the greatest asset of all.

In their precise tracings-out and subtle causations, the strongest and fieriest emotions of life defy all analytical insight.

The most mature human insight comes from one's introspection rather than from exterior research.

Whether you are running a business, an industry, or a nation - what is needed are insight, integrity, and inspiration.

Being snarky and smug doesn't equate to providing insight, and there's more than one occasion when the filmmakers lose sight of this in their zeal to spread the Gospel According to Maher.

The First Insight Theory: Mysterious coincidences cause the reconsideration of the inherent mystery that surrounds our individual lives on this planet.

With an open mind, we gain insight into ideas and expressions that we may have overlooked or not noticed at all.

We're constantly pushing these materials and processes to the extreme to see what will happen. It's an insight into things that you don't normally see.

Insight is 'mental vision,' one of the ways in which the mind escapes the limits of the obvious or the familiar.

Prajna is insight into the world. And a lot of that insight has to do with karma and the way karma affects our lives.

For me, there's a very clear parallel between the practice of insight in Buddhism and what's called prajna - the insight that arrives through meditation.

Insight is not a matter of memory, of knowledge and time, which are all thought.

For me, a really radical position for journalism to take is to stop being cynical. Cynicism is what passes for insight among the mediocre.

The deeper our insight into the methods of nature . . . the more incredible the popular Christianity seems to us.

Insight into soul-action, ability to discriminate the genuine from the sham and capacity to further one and discourage the other.

I believe is that we can forecast the "changing landscape of context," and thus get insight into when we are entering the danger zone of an X-event.

Insight makes argument ridiculous.

Working in film, I'm sure you have insight into this, there's something great that only comes by way of interactions with others that a monastic life does not afford.

Where the Bible is esteemed as the inspired and inerrant Word of God, preaching can flourish. But where the Bible is treated merely as a record of valuable religious insight, preaching dies.

When Obama was inaugurated, he and his team had an insight - though whether the insight was conscious or not I don't know. But it was this: The TARP $700 billion price tag was a new kind of model.

The great conservative insight is that order is really hard to achieve. It’s really precious, and it’s really easy to lose.

After the destructionofthe Second Temple Jewslived by an ancient and fundamental insight, that God does not live in buildings but in the human heart.

All of my jokes were about not being able to meet anybody. I didn't have any insight into anything - even my own insecurities.

Literature is less involved in giving you answers and more dedicated to giving you insight.

If professional religious leaders can [no longer] instruct..., our artists and creative writers can perhaps step into this priestly role and bring fresh insight to our lost and damaged world.

I am of the opinion that the appreciation and the desire for what is good takes more study and insight than does the understanding and test for the best music and art.

Thomas Hauser respects boxing and boxers. He gives readers insight into what happens in and out of the ring. Everything he writes is fair-minded and reality-based with a human touch.

Knowing that one is always capable of change, the second step lies in making the decision to change. Change does not occur by merely willing it anymore than behavior changes simply through insight.

Some of the shrewdest insight into natural processes have been greeted at the outset by the exclamation 'But that's ridiculous'.

Master of the universe is every man's potential insight, cosmic potential.

Indeed, these errors and my prompt confessions have made me surer, if possible, of my insight into the implications of truth and ahimsa.

It changes how people read you if you believe in God. It gives insight into your motivation, how you look at problems and how you deal with people.

Journalists immediately think of me as a resource for a quote or comment because they know that I will be available to offer fresh insight and meet their deadlines.

Curation is a form of pattern recognition - pieces of information or insight which over time amount to an implicit point of view.

The secret to global investing is gaining an insight into the hopes and desires of the people who live and work in the countries you invest in.

Innovation without insight is failure.

Suddenly I had a flash of insight: I am a monster, I realized, a monster that wants to stalk through the woods, free and alone, and cannot even bear so much as the touch of a branch on its skin.

In these flashes of insight, I understand for a moment that one of the great dividends of darkness is an increased sensitivity to the light.

To capture the human cost of fallen empire with all its horror and absurdity, Sheets offers the right combination: the political insight of a top reporter and the power of a novelist.

Insight occurs just because it is high time.

You cannot defect form an insight. You cannot unsee what you have seen.

God grant to all of us the power and strength to be people of integrity, and the insight and wisdom to avoid being led into the snares of the dishonest.

Inspirational and will challenge readers to get involved in the lives of others to make a difference. Thank you for sharing your wonderful insight and encouragement.

Thinking through quotes, which to say scouring a range of texts for insight, is one way to outline the process of thinking/feeling through a subject.

When believers neglect the revealed Word of God, they are likely to turn to silly and unprofitable methods of insight.