Insight Quotes

906 Insight quotes by 705 unique authors

I had a little insight into life that most kids probably didn't have. My mother was a schoolteacher, and my father was a social worker.… — Charles Kuralt
If you marry a man who cheats on his wife, you'll be married to a man who cheats on his wife. — Ann Landers
Adherents of the new religious right reject the separation of politics and religion, but they bring no spiritual insights to politics. — Christopher Lasch
All good Literature rests primarily on insight. — George Henry Lewes
Ages when custom is unsettled are necessarily ages of prophecy. The moralist cannot teach what is revealed; he must reveal what can be taught. He… — Walter Lippmann
Children, in a way, are constant learners. Certainly sponge-like. Absorbing everything without careful analysis, even though, at the same time, they are certainly capable of… — Yo-Yo Ma
Insights don't usually arrive at my desk, but go into notebooks when I'm on the move. Or half-asleep. — Hilary Mantel
A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding. — Marshall McLuhan
As the unity of the modern world becomes increasingly a technological rather than a social affair, the techniques of the arts provide the most valuable… — Marshall McLuhan
If you look at that incredible burst of fantastic characters that emerged in the late 19th century/early 20th century, you can see so many of… — Alan Moore
I don't do much more than organise other people's ideas and insights and thoughts, and sort of harvest them, and inventory them and present them. — Chuck Palahniuk
From time immemorial artistic insights have been revealed to artists in their sleep and in dreams, so that at all times they ardently desired them. — Paracelsus
The hypothesis may be put forward, to be tested by the s subsequent investigation, that this development has been in large part a matter of… — Talcott Parsons
I've come to recognize what I call my 'inside interests.' Telling stories. And helping people tell their stories is a sort of interpersonal gardening. My… — Jane Pauley
When I go to movies and I love the movie, it's because it feels like it articulated something about how we're living now, and also… — Josh Radnor
Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding. — Agnes Repplier
Whether it's viewers of the show or readers of my columns and books, I'm consistently impressed with their wit, humor and insight. That goes for… — Richard Roeper
You have to be a lover of books without expecting more of them than they give - a little pleasure, a little insight, a moment… — Anne Roiphe
Humor is the affectionate communication of insight. — Leo Rosten
Religions that teach brotherly love have been used as an excuse for persecution, and our profoundest scientific insight is made into a means of mass… — Bertrand Russell
Only an artist as preternaturally acute and copacetic, as oddly visionary and just odd as Richard Artschwager, would be able to lay out the whole… — Jerry Saltz
In truth, even if they have an imperfect insight into their own methods, I still slightly mistrust writers of fiction who are assured literary critics;… — Will Self
What I really like is an intelligent review. It doesn't have to be positive. A review that has some kind of insight, and sometimes people… — Patti Smith
I recognize myself to be an intensely naive person. Most novelists are, despite frequent pretensions to deep socio-political insight. — Zadie Smith
It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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