Insight Quotes

906 Insight quotes by 705 unique authors

Between each album I try to gain a new insight that I didn't have before and perhaps write a song about something that I've written… — Don Henley
Insight into universal nature provides an intellectual delight and sense of freedom that no blows of fate and no evil can destroy. — Alexander von Humboldt
What is speed? The sports press often confuses speed with insight. See, if I start running slightly earlier than someone else, I seem faster. — Johan Cruijff
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… — Marvin J. Ashton
There are insights that can be born only of your own pain, and they are the most precious. Seek [within] the undiscovered part of yourself.… — Janusz Korczak
Told with rare honesty, My Accidental Jihad is the story of Krista Bremer's lifelong quest for insight and understanding, a search that leads her out… — Maggie Shipstead
I'm always asking questions - not to find 'answers,' but to see where the questions lead. Dead ends sometimes? That's fine. New directions? Interesting. Great… — Lesley Hazleton
One day while studying a Yeats poem I decided to write poetry the rest of my life. I recognized that a single short poem has… — Robert Bly
Some of the shrewdest insight into natural processes have been greeted at the outset by the exclamation 'But that's ridiculous'. — Lewis Thomas
Quantum physics tells us that nothing that is observed is unaffected by the observer. That statement, from science, holds an enormous and powerful insight. It… — Neale Donald Walsch
Real genius of moral insight is a motor which will start any engine. — Edmund Wilson
I don't have the insight with the Longhorns that I do with the two teams that I own, but as a fan and reading the… — Tom Hicks
There is only one art, whose sole criterion is the power, the authenticity, the revelatory insight, the courage and suggestiveness with which it seeks its… — Vaclav Havel
Wonder-the enthusiastic ardor for the sublimity of being, for its worthiness to be an object of knowledge-promises to become the point of departure for genuine… — Hans Urs von Balthasar
You just don't make decisions about what you're going to be like when you are old. I know that I am making that decision right… — John Powell
Knowledge is the rediscovering of our own insight. — Plato
A thought may be very commendable as a thought, but I value it chiefly as a window through which I can obtain insight on the… — Alexander Smith
'Blessed are the poor in spirit, for they shall see God' suggested to me a heavenly welfare program for the meek. Today that saying reveals… — Huston Smith
Profound insights arise only in debate, with a possibility of counterargument, only when there is a possibility of expressing not only correct ideas but also… — Andrei Sakharov
Prayer does not change God, it changes us. It deepens insight, increases intuitive perception, expands consciousness. It transforms personality. — Wilferd Peterson
... if one were to refuse to have direct, geometric, intuitive insights, if one were reduced to pure logic, which does not permit a choice… — Henri Lebesgue
The genius of Man in our time has gone into jet-propulsion, atom-splitting, penicillin-curing, etc. There is left none over for works of imagination; of spiritual… — Malcolm Muggeridge
I describe management as arts, crafts and science. It is a practice that draws on arts, craft and science and there is a lot of… — Henry Mintzberg
For honest insight into who you are, don't ask yourself what your priorities are for next week. Ask what your priorities were last week. — Robert Reed
Her professors were astonished by her leaps of thought, by the finesse and elegance of her insights. She arrived at hypotheses by sheer intuition and… — Deborah Eisenberg

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