Insight Quotes

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One should have insight into this world of dreams that passes in the twinkling of an eye. — Hojo Shigetoki
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
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
Insight into soul-action, ability to discriminate the genuine from the sham and capacity to further one and discourage the other. — John Dewey
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
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
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
History thus becomes largely a study of character. Insight into temperament is hardly less important than the probing of "original materials." — Unknown Author
Reflective thinking turns experience into insight. — John C. Maxwell
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. — George Santayana
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
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
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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