Best 465 quotes in «insight quotes» category

All good Literature rests primarily on insight.

All of my jokes were about not being able to meet anybody. I didn't have any insight into anything - even my own insecurities.

All the insight we will ever need to live well will come from fully being who and where we are.

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

Any supreme insight is a metaphor.

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.

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.

A mode of knowledge rooted in silence and intuitive insight which gives meaning to life but which cannot be explained in rational terms.

Cynicism is what passes for insight among the mediocre.

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 when courage is lacking

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

Discovery is the journey; insight is the destination.

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.

Empathy is the ultimate form of customer insight.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Insight without action is worthless.

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.

Insight occurs just because it is high time.

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

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

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

Innovation without insight is failure.

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

Insight makes argument ridiculous.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

Liberation exists- and you will never be liberated.