Insight Quotes

906 Insight quotes by 705 unique authors

The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion or in politics, but it is not the path to knowledge, and there's no place… — Carl Sagan
Old men tend to forget what thought was like in their youth; they forget the quickness of the mental jump, the daring of the youthful… — Isaac Asimov
Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight. — Helen Keller
We who have touched war have a duty to bring the truth about war to those who have not had a direct experience of it.… — Nhat Hanh
Harry, despite your privileged insight into Voldemort’s world (which, incidentally, is a gift any Death Eater would kill to have), you have never been seduced… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
This was not a good idea coming home for Christmas. I'm too old. Years ago, coming back from schools or trips, I always expected some… — Douglas Coupland
Insight is not a lightbulb that goes off inside our heads. It is a flickering candle that can easily be snuffed out. — Malcolm Gladwell
No, the secret is that there's no reward and we have to endure our characters and our natures as best we can, because no amount… — SÃ¡ndor MÃ¡rai
Omigod,' I said on a sudden flash of sleep-deprived insight. 'You're the big bad wolf.' There are some similarities. — Janet Evanovich
Socrates, whose mother was a midwife, used to say that his art was like the art of the midwife. She does not herself give birth… — Jostein Gaarder
A philosopher knows that in reality he knows very little. That is why he constantly strives to achieve true insight. Socrates was one of these… — Jostein Gaarder
Assessing existence while failing to embrace the insights of modern physics would be like wrestling in the dark with an unknown opponent. — Brian Greene
In my own life, as winters turn into spring, I find it not only hard to cope with mud but also hard to credit the… — Parker J. Palmer
I want to be violated by insight. — Aimee Bender
It is a commonplace of all religious thought, even the most primitive, that the man seeking visions and insight must go apart from his fellows… — Loren Eiseley
We can either have a twenty-first-century conversation about morality and the human well-being - a conversation in which we avail ourselves of all scientific insights… — Sam Harris
The idea of authority, which they represented, was associated in our minds with a greater insight and a more humane wisdom. — Erich Maria Remarque
To dwell in the here and now does not mean you never think about the past or responsibly plan for the future. The idea is… — Nhat Hanh
The golden rule for understanding spiritually is not intellect, but obedience. If a man wants scientific knowledge, intellectual curiosity is his guide; but if he… — Oswald Chambers
I used to say to my classes that the ways to get insight are: to study infants; to study animals; to study primitive people; to… — Margaret Mead
...if I die suddenly, my gravestone might appropriately offer this insight into my departure: "God got tired." I require lots of work. — Beth Moore
At the time, I didn't have the insight to wonder at the transient nature of despair, but now that I'm older I've seen how little… — Meg Rosoff
The purpose of a short story is ... that the reader shall come away with the satisfactory feeling that a particular insight into human character… — Lin Yutang
In a world so redolent with wonder, how can we allow ourselves to conduct our daily lives with so little insight, such absence of dignity? — Bruce Sterling
The human mind works at low efficiency. Twenty percent is the figure usually given. When, momentarily, there is a flash of greater power, it is… — Isaac Asimov

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