Best 465 quotes in «insight quotes» category

A thought may be very commendable as a thought, but I value it chiefly as a window through which I can obtain insight on the thinker.

At the moment of insight, a potential pattern of organized behavior comes into being.

A visionary is someone who sees the future with both insight and foresight: Insight into the deeper causes and meaning of events in the world, and foresight, or an intuitive grasp of the big picture, such as the trajectory of politics and popular culture.

Be aware of your inner voice and follow it, even though most of the time it will tell you the most uncomfortable path to choose.

Cynicism is what passes for insight among the mediocre.

But when you get to know a character so well, you start to have insights that you can't show because you're confined to your script of your hit show.

Cynicism is what passes for insight when courage is lacking

Discovery is the journey; insight is the destination.

Empathy is the ultimate form of customer insight.

Do not let anyone, of any sex, tell you that your intuitions and insights, your wisdom and your understandings, are somehow second-rate or not to be trusted.

Even in the most purely logical realms, it is insight that first arrives at what is new.

For me, there's a very clear parallel between the practice of insight in Buddhism and what's called prajna - the insight that arrives through meditation.

Finally I am coming to the conclusion that my highest ambition is to be what I already I am.

Every creative person can draft into service those around them who exhibit the right mixture of intelligence, insight, and grace.

Every original poet has a new insight, or rather introduces a new power.

I don't feel there's anything about my experience of being gay that gives me more insight into "don't ask, don't tell," for example, than anybody else.

For the classics philosophical insight was the product of a life of leisure; for me a life of leisure is the product of philosophical insight.

I like reading novels because it provides insight into human behavior.

If you never ask yourself any questions about the meaning of a passage, you cannot expect the book to give you any insight you do not already possess.

If I have any insight at all to contribute it is this: find out what you are really good at and stick to it.

If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.

Indeed, these errors and my prompt confessions have made me surer, if possible, of my insight into the implications of truth and ahimsa.

In every one of us there are good seeds and bad. We have the seed of brotherhood, love, compassion, insight. But we have also the seed of anger, hate, dissent.

Innovation without insight is failure.

Insight comes at a moment of transition between work and relaxation.

Insight makes argument ridiculous.

Insight occurs just because it is high time.

Insight, untested and unsupported, is an uncertain guarantee of the truth.

Insight without action is worthless.

Insight is not the same as scientific deduction, but even at that it may be more reliable than statistics.

Insight occurs when, and to the degree that, one knows oneself.

I recognize myself to be an intensely naive person. Most novelists are, despite frequent pretensions to deep socio-political insight.

In their precise tracings-out and subtle causations, the strongest and fieriest emotions of life defy all analytical insight.

In the window, I fantasize... about providing grown-ups and children alike with the greatest gift of all: insight.

Intuition is when we use our experience, and the patterns we have learned, to rapidly size up situations and know how to respond without going through deliberate analysis. Intuitions depend on the patterns we have acquired. Insight is about gaining new patterns.

It is not sociologists who provide insights but photographers of our sort who are observers at the very center of their times. I have always felt strongly that this was the photographer's true vocation.

Is insight dependent on a material process? Has insight a cause?

I've always written in first person. It gives the readers more insight.

It takes some intelligence and insight to figure out you're gay and then a tremendous amount of balls to live it and live it proudly.

It turns out that human beings are hard-wired to have conversations impact them in such profound and significant ways that it can actually turn genes on and off. That's a core, fascinating challenge for all of us and insight.

I wrote the book not to prove people wrong but just to get the insight on who I am as a person.

I've gained no wisdom, no insight, no mellowing. I would make all the same mistakes again, today.

Most photographs, to me, are description, but they lack insight.

Journalists immediately think of me as a resource for a quote or comment because they know that I will be available to offer fresh insight and meet their deadlines.

Knowledge is the rediscovering of our own insight.

Liberation exists- and you will never be liberated.

Man relates to material things through direct insight rather than reason.

Master of the universe is every man's potential insight, cosmic potential.

More time [to decide] without more information just creates anxiety, not insight.

Most high officials leave office with the perceptions and insights with which they entered.