Insight Quotes

906 Insight quotes by 705 unique authors

...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
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 canâ€™t see, which is the very reason one should try to attempt it. Otherwise weâ€™re going to go… — Duane Michals

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