Insight Quotes

• The whole purpose of an adventure is to gain some spiritual or emotional insight. When you compromise the process, you compromise the gain.

  

  Yvon Chouinard
  • Purpose
  • Spiritual
  • Emotional

• I tell people that I'm a Christian, but I don't think it's giving an insight into who I am or what I'm about.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • People
  • Christian
  • Insight

• The best vision is insight.

  

  Malcolm Forbes
  • Best
  • Vision
  • Insight

• Ages when custom is unsettled are necessarily ages of prophecy. The moralist cannot teach what is revealed; he must reveal what can be taught. He has to seek insight rather than to preach.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Teach
  • Insight
  • Reveal

• The more insight I get, the more scared I get of women in general.

  

  Dan Byrd
  • Women
  • Scared
  • Insight

• 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, let alone satisfaction.

  

  Diane Ackerman
  • Emotional
  • Creativity
  • Logic

• You get more insight as you get older, on everything.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • You
  • Everything
  • Insight

• Writing is another powerful way to sharpen the mental saw. Keeping a journal of our thoughts, experiences, insights, and learnings promotes mental clarity, exactness, and context.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Writing
  • Powerful
  • Clarity

• I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children.

  

  Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Children
  • Character
  • Parents

• The first act of insight is throw away the labels. In fiction, while we do not necessarily write about ourselves, we write out of ourselves, using ourselves; what we learn from, what we are sensitive to, what we feel strongly about--these become our characters and go to make our plots. Characters in fiction are conceived from within, and they have, accordingly, their own interior life; they are individuals every time.

  

  Eudora Welty
  • Writing
  • Character
  • Feels

• The most valuable insight on choosing whom to love is to be honest with yourself about the man standing before you.

  

  Niecy Nash
  • Honest
  • Valuable
  • Standing

• The first act of insight is throw away the labels.

  

  Eudora Welty
  • Insight
  • Labels

• If you are to be successful...you will need to be inspired. You will need to receive revelation. I will give you one piece of advice: Go to bed early and get up early. If you do, your body and mind will become rested and then in the quiet of those early morning hours, you will receive more flashes of inspiration and insight than at any other time of the day.

  

  Harold B. Lee
  • Morning
  • Inspiration
  • Advice

• The sciences are said, and they are truly said, to have a mutual connection, that any one of them may be the better understood, for an insight into the rest.

  

  Samuel Horsley
  • May
  • Rest
  • Connection

• Stupid people like to delude themselves that while they may not be clever, they were at least able to compensate with feelings and insights denied to the intellectual....It was precisely this kind of false belief that made stupid people so stupid. The truth was the clever people had infinitely more resources from which to make the leaps of connection that the world called intuition. What was 'intelligence' after all, but the ability to read into things?

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Ability
  • Insight
  • Leap

• Perhaps the deepest insight that comes from thinking about later life as a chance to exploit knowledge acquired over decades is this: life should get better over time. What an explorer trades off for knowledge is pleasure.

  

  Brian Christian
  • Knowledge
  • Chance
  • Insight

• If you want to take the island, then burn your boats. With absolute commitment come the insights that create real victory.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Commitment
  • Victory
  • Boat

• When I work a game as an analyst, all I do is look at the game like a coach. Why was something successful? What makes it work? I just try to use my expertise and whatever insight I have to the game.

  

  Lou Holtz
  • Work
  • Trying
  • Why

• The laws of Coexistence;-the adaptation of structure to function; and to a certain extent the elucidation of natural affinities may be legitimately founded upon the examination of fully developed species;-But to obtain an insight into the laws of development,-the signification or bedeutung, of the parts of an animal body demands a patient examination of the successive stages of their development, in every group of Animals.

  

  Richard Owen
  • Science
  • Animal
  • Natural

• There are three kinds of minds: first those that attain insight and understanding of things by their own means, then those that recognize what is right when others explain it to them, and finally those that are capable of neither one nor the other.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • Understanding
  • Minds
  • Kinds

• It’s not enough to withdraw from society and seek your own salvation, your own individuation. The individuator must return to society (“collectivity”) to contribute his or her new insights, his or her new values, which must be at least equal to if not greater than the norm.

  

  Gary Lachman Blondie
  • Enough
  • Values
  • Equal

• Knowing many things doesn't teach insight.

  

  Heraclitus
  • Teach
  • Knowing
  • Insight

• Instead of insight, maybe all a man gets is strength to wander for a while. Maybe the only gift is a chance to inquire, to know nothing for certain. An inheritance of wonder and nothing more.

  

  William Lewis Trogdon
  • Men
  • Wonder
  • Chance

• Never look for the story in the 'lede.' Reporters are required to put what's happened up top, but the practiced pundit places a nugget of news, even a startling insight, halfway down the column, directed at the politiscenti. When pressed for time, the savvy reader starts there.

  

  William Lewis Safir
  • Halfway
  • Columns
  • Savvy

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