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257 Insights quotes by 219 unique authors
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The mountain is a mirror, where climbers look to find themselves. They discover their frailty, take heart from their strengths, drink deep of the insights.
— Lincoln Hall
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Each of the small enlightenments that a Zen practitioner has, which are known in Zen as "Satori experiences," provides deeper insights into the nature of…
— Frederick Lenz
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I hope that we can bridge the worlds of appearances and of insights, and thus rescue art from triviality, from 'sensation' alone.
— Burton Silverman
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The only remarkable thing about Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather, Part II is the insistent manner in which it recalls how much better his original…
— Vincent Canby
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I would like to have insights into things like government, all those big ideas that you brought up that I simply don't have ideas about.…
— Jasper Johns
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Studying cancer could provide huge insights for astrobiologists into the nature of life itself.
— Paul Davies
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For most people, the major hurdle in grasping modern insights into the nature of the universe is that these developments are usually phrased using mathematics.
— Brian Greene
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I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of leadership are universal and are often…
— Queen Elizabeth II
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People got insights into what was bothering them, but they hardly did a damn thing to change.
— Albert Ellis
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Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists,…
— Hermann Hesse
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Many of the insights of the saint stem from their experience as sinners.
— Eric Hoffer
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True philanthropy requires a disruptive mindset, innovative thinking and a philosophy driven by entrepreneurial insights and creative opportunities.
— Naveen Jain
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Our society is illuminated by the spiritual insights of the Hebrew prophets. America and Israel have a common love of human freedom, and they have…
— Lyndon B. Johnson
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High office teaches decision making, not substance. It consumes intellectual capital; it does not create it. Most high officials leave office with the perceptions and…
— Henry A. Kissinger
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Adherents of the new religious right reject the separation of politics and religion, but they bring no spiritual insights to politics.
— Christopher Lasch
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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
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Insights don't usually arrive at my desk, but go into notebooks when I'm on the move. Or half-asleep.
— Hilary Mantel
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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
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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
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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
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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
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I think every artist subconsciously wants to evolve themselves. Sometimes they get stuck in ruts because of pop culture, peer pressure, stuff like that. But…
— Steve Vai
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Something went klunk. Like a nickel dropping in a soda machine. One of those small insights that explains everything. This was puberty for these boys.…
— David Gerrold
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What good are insights? They only make things worse.
— Raymond Carver
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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
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