Insight Quotes

906 Insight quotes by 705 unique authors

I want to taste and glory in each day, and never be afraid to experience pain; and never shut myself up in a numb core… — Sylvia Plath
Understanding requires insight. Insight must be anchored. — Brian Greene
I am simply impressed by the unexpected insights which shower down on me when my job is to imagine, as contrasted with the woodenly familiar… — Kurt Vonnegut
So here I am, my affections torn between a postal service that never feeds me but can tackle a challenge and one that gives me… — Bill Bryson
At the age of twelve I had an attitude toward life that was to endure, that was to make me seek those areas of living… — Richard Wright
Never allow anything to divert you from your insight into Jesus Christ. It is the true test of whether you are spiritual or not. To… — Oswald Chambers
When we learn to read the story of Jesus and see it as the story of the love of God, doing for us what we… — N. T. Wright
Seriousness is no more a guarantee of truth, insight, authenticity or probity, than humour is a guarantee of superficiality and stupidity. — Stephen Fry
To deal with things knowledge of things is needed. To deal with people, you need insight, sympathy. To deal with yourself, you need nothing. Be… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Faith, hope, love, and insight are the highest achievements of human effort. They are found-given-by experience. — Carl Jung
There is the old catch-22 line that a mentally unstable person can't know, as per their illness, that they are unstable. But that was wrong.… — Harlan Coben
The sinister, the terrible never deceive: the state in which they leave us is always one of enlightenment. And only this condition of vicious insight… — Thomas Ligotti
To be sane, he held, was either to be sedated by melancholy or activated by hysteria, two responses which were 'always and equally warranted for… — Thomas Ligotti
The illegality of cannabis is outrageous, an impediment to full utilization of a drug which helps produce the serenity and insight, sensitivity and fellowship so… — Carl Sagan
Photographers tend not to photograph what they can’t see, which is the very reason one should try to attempt it. Otherwise we’re going to go… — Duane Michals
You come by your style by learning what to leave out. At first you tend to overwrite—embellishment instead of insight. You either continue to write… — Billy Collins
[Biblical counseling] Must insist that the image of God is central to developing a solid view of personality; that our sinfulness, not how we've been… — Dan B. Allender
The beauty of the ragamuffin gospel lies in the insight it offers into Jesus: the essential tenderness of His heart, His way of looking at… — Brennan Manning
and while faith based on theological reasoning is today universally engaged in a bitter struggle with doubt and resistance from the prevailing brand of rationalism,… — Robert Musil
A tornado of thought is unleashed after each new insight. This in turn results in an earthquake of assumptions. These are natural disasters that re-shape… — Vera Nazarian
To cite the facts of history is to fall prey to 'moral equivalence,' or 'political correctness,' or 'the error of of atheism,' or one of… — Noam Chomsky
To learn and think; to think and live; to live and learn: this always, with new insight, new understanding, and new love. — Sylvia Plath
Most people's intuitions are drowned out by folk sayings. We have a moment of real feeling or insight, and then we come up with a… — Anne Lamott
Many doctors are drawn to this profession (psychology) because they have an innate deficiency of insight into the motives, feelings and thoughts of others, a… — William S. Burroughs
An artist is someone who uses bravery, insight, creativity, and boldness to challenge the status quo. And an artist takes it personally. — Seth Godin

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