Insight Quotes

906 Insight quotes by 705 unique authors

I sometimes think there is a dimension beyond the four of experience and Einstein: insight, that fifth dimension which promises to liberate us from bondage… — Leo Rosten
Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality. I have been for many years a teacher of languages. It is an occupation… — Joseph Conrad
Ideally a painter (and, generally, an artist) should not become conscious of his insights: without taking the detour through his reflective processes, and incomprehensibly to… — Rainer Maria Rilke
Insight doesn't happen often on the click of the moment, like a lucky snapshot, but comes in its own time and more slowly and from… — Eudora Welty
The first act of insight is throw away the labels. — Eudora Welty
Never look for the story in the 'lede.' Reporters are required to put what's happened up top, but the practiced pundit places a nugget of… — William Safire
Most photographs, to me, are description, but they lack insight. — Duane Michals
It is clear that all verbal structures with meaning are verbal imitations of that elusive psychological and physiological process known as thought, a process stumbling… — Northrop Frye
There are several insights at the heart of the A's system that I think are wonderful for baseball. One, that it's a team game. That… — Michael Lewis
To look for some kind of insight or meaning in pop songs is not really - well there's plenty of other places where you should… — Jason Newsted
The central point of this final chapter is that - follow my logic carefully here - unless you die, you will continue to get older.… — Dave Barry
Complete knowledge of the nature of an analytic function must also include insight into its behavior for imaginary values of the arguments. Often the latter… — Carl Friedrich Gauss
At the head of these new discoveries and insights comes the establishment of the facts that electricity is composed of discrete particles of equal size,… — Johannes Stark
Keynes was a very good economist. He was brilliant. He had wonderful insights. His work has inspired me many times. — Thomas J. Sargent
I want to share some insight into why someone would want to be a SEAL. A lot of us faced obstacles growing up. I didn't… — Howard E. Wasdin
The astral dimensions afford you opportunities to have experiences and gain insights into the structural nature of how dimensions are made up and phased together. — Frederick Lenz
Contrary to widespread faith in "communication" and "knowledge transfer," information has a social life, and unless new insights are embedded in the social system they… — Richard Pascale
I recognize this in my writing process. A consistent writing structure opens the door to amazing insights. I recognize the truth of this in my… — Mary Anne Radmacher
First person allows deeper insight into the protagonist's character. It allows the reader to identify more fully with the protagonist and to share her world… — Juliet Marillier
XL is dedicated to understanding shifting business dynamics and helping our clients thrive in increasingly complex and changing environments. 'The Future of the Company' platform… — Mike McGavick
Those we call saints rebelled against an outmoded and inadequate form of God on the basis of their new insights into divinity. — Rollo May
So often actors only mix with actors, which is quite incestuous, and doesn't give them the insight into how other people work. — Penelope Keith
You carry Mother Earth within you. She is not outside of you. Mother Earth is not just your environment. In that insight of inter-being, it… — Nhat Hanh
I think people who write programs do have at least a glimmer of extra insight into the nature of God... because creating a program often… — Donald Knuth
A reader kindly pointed out to me recently that most of the quotes I include are by men. And it's true. Personally, I don't even… — Charlotte Bronte

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