Insight Quotes

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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… — Lord Kelvin
Meditation is like a single log of wood. Insight and investigation are one end of the log; calm and concentration are the other end. If… — Ajahn Chah
Liberalism and Western-style democracy have not been able to help realize the ideals of humanity. Today, these two concepts have failed. Those with insight can… — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
With the strength of his spiritual sight and insight the distance, and as it were the space, around man continually expands: his world grows deeper,… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Science as an intellectual exercise enriches our culture, and is in itself ennobling. ... Though to the layman, the world revealed by the chemist may… — Henry Taube
Each of the world religions has its own particular genius, its own special insight into the nature and requirements of compassion, and has something unique… — Karen Armstrong
Innovation is fostered by information gathered from new connections; from insights gained by journeys into other disciplines or places; from active, collegial networks and fluid,… — Margaret J. Wheatley
Change will lead to insight far more often than insight will lead to change. — Milton H. Erickson
If you have desires, try to look - are those desires the cause of your misery? Nobody wants misery, but nobody is willing to drop… — Rajneesh
We are what we are because of the hard work, insights and achievements of countless others. — Karen Armstrong
A knowledge of brain science will provide one of the major foundations of the new age to come. That knowledge will spawn cures for disease,… — Gerald Edelman
Gorbachev's stance contrasts admirably with the policy of the sainted Abraham Lincoln, who used massive force and mass murder to force the seceding Southern states… — Murray Rothbard
I would... establish the conviction that Chemistry, as an independent science, offers one of the most powerful means towards the attainment of a higher mental… — Justus von Liebig
We who are of mature age seldom suspect how unmercifully and yet with what insight the very young judge us. — W. Somerset Maugham
My work is to reach people with ideas, hopes, dreams, encouragement, insight, and revelation. That's what an actor wants to do. — John Astin
A lack of seriousness has led to all sorts of wonderful insights. — Kurt Vonnegut
You are your own most important resource for making your life work. Life rewards action. Until your knowledge, awareness, insights, and understandings are translated into… — Phil McGraw
Neither theological knowledge nor social action alone is enough to keep us in love with Christ unless both are proceeded by a personal encounter with… — Fulton J. Sheen
To be a scholar of mathematics you must be born with talent, insight, concentration, taste, luck, drive and the ability to visualize and guess. — Paul Halmos
[Mathematics] is security. Certainty. Truth. Beauty. Insight. Structure. Architecture. I see mathematics, the part of human knowledge that I call mathematics, as one thing-one great,… — Paul Halmos

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