Insight Quotes

906 Insight quotes by 705 unique authors

The world breaks everyone or nearly everyone, of their childish illusions, assumptions and wishes, often painfully and afterwards due to the personal growth in practical… — Ernest Hemingway
There is not a single true work of art that has not in the end added to the inner freedom insight and life of each… — Albert Camus
Your anger will cool into hardened passionate insight if you wait a day. Most of the things that make me angry I let them sit.… — Keith Olbermann
In 1902 I left the A.E.G. in order to enter finance. I joined the management of one of our big banks, the Berliner Handelsge-Sellschaft, and… — Walther Rathenau
A. Douglas Stone, a physicist who has spent his life using quantum mechanics to explore striking new phenomena, has turned his considerable writing skills to… — Unknown Author
Heatstroke is an important and useful addition to the library on climate change, bringing insights from deep-time ecological research to help illuminate the dire forecasts… — David Quammen
It must be stressed that there is nothing insulting about looking at people as animals. We are animals, after all. Homo sapiens is a species… — Desmond Morris
Unless we regain the art of silence and insight, the ability for nonactivity, unless we substitute true leisure for our hectic amusements, we will destroy… — Josef Pieper
And no book gives a deeper insight into the inner life of the Negro, his struggles and his aspirations, than, The Souls of Black Folk. — Ray Stannard Baker
Quinn Cummings is a master story-teller and her book is nothing short of delightful. Her insights into topics like celebrity, parenting, and cats with a… — Jen Lancaster
To read great books does not mean one becomes ‘bookish’; it means that something of the terrible insight of Dostoyevsky, of the richly-charged imagination of… — John Cowper Powys
Now it is evident that a little insight into the customs of every people is necessary to insure a kindly communication; this, joined with patience… — Charles Sturt
It’s not enough to withdraw from society and seek your own salvation, your own individuation. The individuator must return to society (“collectivity”) to contribute his… — Unknown Author
The EU Kids Online project is the most theoretically informed and methodologically sophisticated study we have on the issue of risks in the new electronic… — David Finkelhor
McIntosh is persuasive in his arguments that the scientific facts of evolution cannot stand alone ... science shows that historical evolution, whatever its contingencies, is… — Holmes Rolston III
Al Bernstein has seen cable television sports grow up. In 30 Years/30 Undeniable Truths he looks at his time in the industry through a prism… — Barry Tompkins
Empathy is the ultimate form of customer insight. — Don Peppers
Metaphor is our mental root of imagination and language. Arnold Kozak offers fertile metaphors for growing your knowledge of the Buddhadharma. If you contemplate these… — Polly Young-Eisendrath
Over the course of several articles, I will give you the tools to become a sentence connoisseur as well as a sentence artisan. Each of… — Constance Hale
This is an extremely ambitious book. In addition to science and mathematics, Byers brings to bear insights from literature, philosophy, religion, history, anthropology, medicine, and… — Joseph Auslander
The truth can be hard to take, but we have an obligation to look and see what's going on, and, if we don't like it,… — Bill Maher
To demand that others should provide you textbook prognoses is like asking a strange woman to give birth to your baby. There are insights that… — Janusz Korczak
Since we are assured that the all-wise Creator has observed the most exact proportions of number, weight and measure in the make of all things,… — Unknown Author
Religion is hard work. Its insights are not self-evident and have to be cultivated in the same way as an appreciation of art, music, or… — Karen Armstrong
Thich Nhat Hanh is one of the greatest teachers of our time. He reaches from the heights of insight down to the deepest places of… — Robert Thurman

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