Insight Quotes
906 quotes by 705 authors
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One should have insight into this world of dreams that passes in the twinkling of an eye.
— Hojo Shigetoki
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Our task, then always, is to challenge the apparent forms of reality-that is, the fixed manner and values of the few, and to struggle with…
— Ralph Ellison
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Suicide may also be regarded as an experiment - a question which man puts to Nature, trying to force her to answer. The question is…
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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Insight into soul-action, ability to discriminate the genuine from the sham and capacity to further one and discourage the other.
— John Dewey
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Meditation is an insight that all goals are false. Meditation is an understanding that desires don't lead anywhere. Seeing that... And this is not a…
— Rajneesh
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We're all just a bundle of habits shaped by our memories. And to the extent that we control our lives, we do so by gradually…
— Joshua Foer
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The secret of man's success resides in his insight into the moods of people, and his tact in dealing with them.
— J. G. Holland
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History thus becomes largely a study of character. Insight into temperament is hardly less important than the probing of "original materials."
— Unknown Author
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Reflective thinking turns experience into insight.
— John C. Maxwell
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Insight, I believe, refers to the depth of understanding that comes by setting experiences, yours and mine, familiar and exotic, new and old, side by…
— Mary Catherine Bateson
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There is a wealth of information built into us ... tucked away in the genetic material in every one of our cells ... without some…
— Alexander Shulgin
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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…
— Thomas Carlyle
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I have been reading the Old Testament, a most bloodthirsty and perilous book for the young. Jehovah is beyond doubt the worst character in fiction.
— Edwin Arlington Robinson
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I am not sure how many "sins" I would recognize in the world. Some would surely be defused by changed circumstances. But I can imagine…
— Elizabeth Janeway
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Family . . . the home of all social evil, a charitable institution for comfortable women, an anchorage for house-fathers, and a hell for children.
— August Strindberg
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For two thousand years Christianity has been telling us: life is death, death is life; it is high time to consult the dictionary.
— Remy de Gourmont
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Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
— George Santayana
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We cannot will to have insights. We cannot will to have creativity, but we can will to give ourselves to the creative experience with intensity…
— Rollo May
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For the spiritual being, intuition is far more than a hunch. It is viewed as guidance or as God talking, and this inner insight is…
— Wayne Dyer
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When I was fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have him around. When I got to be twenty-one, I was…
— Mark Twain
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