Insight Quotes

906 Insight quotes by 705 unique authors

Before examining this more carefully and investigating its consequences, I want to dwell for a moment in the contemplation of God, to ponder His attributes… — Rene Descartes
We might be wise to follow the insight of the enraptured heart rather than the more cautious reasoning of the theological mind. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
This, then, is the ultimate, that is only, consolation: simply that someone shares some of your own feelings and has made of these a work… — Thomas Ligotti
Because IQ tests favor memory skills and logic, overlooking artistic creativity, insight, resiliency, emotional reserves, sensory gifts, and life experience, they can't really predict success,… — Diane Ackerman
Fasting from any nourishment, activity, involvement or pursuit—for any season—sets the stage for God to appear. Fasting is not a tool to pry wisdom out… — Dan B. Allender
Dying makes everyone weaker, subject to painful insight, and not always insight into any kind of special truth - it's just the approaching end that… — Jeff Lindsay
It would have been funny if I had been an observer and not a participant, an idea that gave me a disconcerting insight into gossip.… — Sherwood Smith
Hey, Sydney. I thought I saw your car out there." He glanced around. "Is, uh, Jill with you?" "Not today." I said. New insight struck… — Richelle Mead
By observing natural scientific discoveries through a perception deepened by meditation, we can develop a new awareness of reality. This awareness could become the bedrock… — Albert Hofmann
Philosophers' Syndrome: mistaking a failure of the imagination for an insight into necessity. — Daniel Dennett
Students and scholars of all kinds and of every age aim, as a rule, only at information, not insight. They make it a point of… — Arthur Schopenhauer
Plants grow most in the darkest hours preceding dawn; so do human souls. Nature always pays for a brave fight. Sometimes she pays in strengthened… — William George Jordan
This is the other secret that real artists know and wannabe writers don’t. When we sit down each day and do our work, power concentrates… — Steven Pressfield
When you begin to see that your enemy is suffering, that is the beginning of insight. — Nhat Hanh
It takes a person of great care and insight to watch for any abnormality in the green grass even while it grows abundantly and healthily. — Kenzaburo Oe
Intelligence is composed mostly of imagination, insight, things that have nothing to do with reason. — Vivienne Westwood
And when the event, the big change in your life, is simply an insight-- isn't that a strange thing? That absolutely nothing changes except that… — Jonathan Franzen
The most compelling insight of that day was that this awesome recall had been brought about by a fraction of a gram of a white… — Alexander Shulgin
What we need to know about loving is no great mystery. We all know what constitutes loving behavior; we need but act upon it, not… — Leo Buscaglia
That day, I really believed that I had grasped something and that henceforth my life would be changed. But insights cannot be held for ever.… — Nicolas Bouvier
Writers are such phonies: they sometimes have wise insights but they don't live by them at all. That's what writers are like...you think they know… — Anne Sexton
A real love letter is made of insight, understanding, and compassion. Otherwise it's not a love letter. A true love letter can produce a transformation… — Nhat Hanh
The only debatable issue, it seems to me, is whether it is more ridiculous to turn to experts in social theory for general well-confirmed propositions,… — Noam Chomsky
Mythology is composed by poets out of their insights and realizations. Mythologies are not invented; they are found. You can no more tell us what… — Joseph Campbell
Without memory there can be no insight. Without love, there can be no appreciation. — Anne Rice

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