Insight Quotes

It seems to me that my whole life I've been standing on some tower or a pillbox or a trampoline, waving the names of writers, as if we needed rescue. And the first person I had to rescue was myself.

John Leonard

There are patterns in everything, in the whole of Nature, from the way the stars turn in the heavens to the whorl of a shell or the petals of a flower and the way leaves arrange themselves about a twig. There are forces, hidden forces. If I can discover what they are, how they operate, I will have my hands upon the levers of creation and can work them myself.

Celia Rees

It's very difficult to keep the line between the past and the present.

Edith Beale

When you’re poor and hungry and frightened of failure, you often don’t have the luxury of high values, lofty goals, and social conscience. Funny how fear and poverty will acid-wash your value set, burn away all the flimflam and artifice and learned morality and leave you with nothing but the urgency of survival. - Dr. Dan Trix - Chasing the Horizon.

Rodney Romig

I was a sinner. I knew that without a doubt. But I was not alone. And the night was the accomplice of us all.

William Kent Krueger

People are wonderful one at a time. Each one of them has an entire hologram of the universe somewhere within them.

George Carlin

...the guards sought to deprive them of something that had sustained them, even as all else had been lost: dignity.This self-respect and sense of self-worth, the innermost armament of the soul, lies at the heart of humanness. To be deprived of it is to be de-humanized, to be cleaved from, and cast below mankind. Men subjected to dehumanizing treatment experience profound wretchedness and loneliness, and find that hope is almost impossible to retain. Without dignity, identity is erased...[They] learned a dark truth known to the doomed in Hitler’s death camps, the slaves of the American South, and a hundred other generations of betrayed people: Dignity is as essential to human life as water, food and oxygen. The stubborn retention of it, even in the face of extreme physical hardship, can hold a man’s soul in his body long past the point in which the body should have surrendered it. The loss of it can carry a man off as surely as thirst, hunger, exposure and asphyxiation, and with greater cruelty... degradation could be as lethal as a bullet.

Laura Hillenbrand

There are no good girls gone wrong - just bad girls found out

Mae West

Fate is a lazy man’s excuse for avoiding curiosity.

Brian Farrey

Sudden revelations vanish just as suddenly.

Marty Rubin

Understanding’s not enough. Understanding’s from outside; merely a function of the mind. [. . .] To enter, that’s the secret. To become the bridge, to crawl into its sap, to sway with it, to rot over centuries as its heartwood rots. When you are the bridge you will know what the bridge knows. It takes time. A lifetime. And skill.

Catherine Fisher

Evidence is the debris of a careless mind.

Brian Farrey

Accusations are merely the envy of the unenlightened given form.

Brian Farrey

Now here's the thing about being a little off-center; you're never sure if you're a bona fide loon or if you have insight that other people don't have.You have to navigate through life using a kind of psychic gyroscope to keep from falling too far one way or another, and you feel a peculiar kinship with other people who are also a little bit off-center.

Blaize Clement

What man knows is little enough and most of his general concepts in every field are vitiated by the artificial concepts he has created to cover his ignorance. These concepts must be destroyed. One tool exists that can accomplish this destruction, and this tool is in your hands. It is simply curiosity—the instinct to ask and to question. It should be kept sharp and used without mercy.

Charles H. Hapgood

When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.

Socrates

Whether the bear beats the wolf or the wolf beats the bear, the rabbit always loses.

Robert Jordan

Two things are to be remembered: that a man whose opinions and theories are worth studying may be presumed to have had some intelligence, but that no man is likely to have arrived at complete and final truth on any subject whatever. When an intelligent man expresses a view which seems to us obviously absurd, we should not attempt to prove that it is somehow true, but we should try to understand how it ever came toseemtrue. Thisexercise of historical and psychological imagination at once enlarges the scope of our thinking, and helps us to realize how foolish many of our own cherished prejudices will seem to an age which has a different temper of mind.

Bertrand Russell

He was shaken by an unwelcome insight. Lives did not add as integers. They added as infinities.

Lois McMaster Bujold

The dilemma of the critic has always been that if he knows enough to speak with authority, he knows too much to speak with detach

Raymond Chandler

When it happens to you, you will be surprised. That thing they say about how you knew all the time but just weren't facing it? That might be the case, but nevertheless, there you will be. You will feel like you have been kicked in the stomach, that your insides have just separated to make room for something big.

Molly Ringwald

I knew everything! Yet, I'm still not perfect.

kent Ian N. Cny

It seems like all the time people are making themselves themselves, but they don't really know it. You can only have true visions when you look behind. A person can slide so fast into being something they never really intended. I wonder if you can truly resurrect your own self.

Elizabeth Berg

If you help someones bank account rise But you can't help their heart feel... Really, what is your value?

Nikki Rowe

I've always been fascinated by weather.

Shepard Smith

You must know what God is expecting from you in the ministry that He has entrusted to you

Sunday Adelaja

Choices are few and sometimes one, to him who hath wisdom; but in abundance are they to the heart of he who lacketh understanding.

Anonymous

The Widdern — the non-magical world, where science rules and many people believe that magic only exists in books. They’re wrong.

Caro King

Let us then understand at once that change or variety is as much a necessity to the human heart and brain in buildings as in books; that there is no merit, though there is some occasional use, in monotony; and that we must no more expect to derive either pleasure or profit from an architecture whose ornaments are of one pattern, and whose pillars are of one proportion, than we should of a universe in which the clouds were all of one shape, and the trees all of one shape.

John Ruskin

Child, you do not forgive because the person who wronged deserves it.You misunderstand the point of forgiveness entirely. The only cage that a grudge creates is around the holder of that grudge. Forgiveness is not saying that the person who hurt you was right, or has earned it, or is allowed to hurt you again. All forgiveness means is that you will carry on without the burdens of rage and hatred.

Merrie Haskell

You can only fail to pick the Castellan's pocket once

Brian Farrey

I asked him: Why didn’t you just tell me? He said: ‘If I tell you, you’ll just forget at some critical point. If you figure it out for yourself, you’ll always remember.

Merrie Haskell

Dad fastens his knife jacket before putting his black pea coat on. He’s like a walking armoury. He has two guns on either side of his chest secured in his black shoulder holsters, an array of magazines on his belt and of course the knives. I don’t need to check to know he has two more guns strapped to both his legs. With his dark coat on, dark jeans and boots, and his weapons hidden away, he looks imposing but harmless. Unsuspecting people would never think of him otherwise.He cocks his head. “Too much?” he asks.

M. Rees

I rarely take time to feel embarrassed. I just figure it's God keeping me humble, and try not to mess up again.

Peggy Perry

In vain does the disguised traveller inwardly rebel against the influences and impressions which are wearing away his real self. The impressions of the past lose more and more their hold on him until they fade away, leaving the traveller hopelessly struggling in the toils of his own fiction, and the rôle he had assumed soon becomes second nature with him.

Ármin Vámbéry

The poet, the artist, the sleuth - whoever sharpens our perception tends to be antisocial; rarely "well-adjusted", he cannot go along with currents and trends. A strange bond often exists between antisocial types in their power to see environments as they really are. This need to interface, to confront environments with a certain antisocial power is manifest in the famous story "The Emperor's New Clothes".

Marshall McLuhan

Ultimately, we are all products of the experiences we have and the decisions we make as children, and it remains a peculiar detail of the human condition that something as precious as a future is entrusted to us when we possess so little foresight. Perhaps that’s what makes hindsight so intriguing. When you’re young the future is a blank canvas, but looking back you are always able to see the big picture.

Simon Pegg

Everything can be seen directly except the eye through which we see.

Ernst F. Schumacher

Use beautiful to describe a sandwich, and the word means nothing.

Jess Walter

Change will lead to insight far more often than insight will lead to change.

Milton H. Erickson

Insights, after all, come from the overlap between seemingly unrelated thoughts. They emerge when concepts are transposed, when the rules of one place are shifted to a new domain.

Jonah Lehrer

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

Anonymous

The world is a merrier place to live if people do things more out of sincerity, not just out of formality.

Maggy San Jose-Baas

Your hearing status does not make you a better person. Your humanity does.

Rosie Malezer

If the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, then the love of GOD is the apex of it!

TemitOpe Ibrahim

True friends are ones who hurt you for your own good.

Jackson Taviri

Love is like a prison..difficult to breakout,painful to get caught and easier to get in.

Jackson Taviri

But the Seeker, who is of unsure gait, also has unsure traits. The way that he moves is unstable and ungainly. It is also unnatural. No other life form adopted this precarious locomotion method of walking on two legs. Intrinsically off balance at all times, it takes just a small stone or a banana peel to topple him over. It is a mysterious wobbly motion much like that of a bicycle. How easy it is, to throw a cyclist off balance, need not be elaborated. But try throwing a truck off balance? Unsettling the Seeker’s balance is also equally easy. But try throwing a horse or a tiger off balance? Even a child knows that four wheels or, at least, three wheels are more stable than two wheels.

Biju Vasudevan

As I grew older and when I became wiser, I realized that not only are we made of molecules, we are also governed and ruled by them. We are just molecular slaves in this vast limitless creation.

Biju Vasudevan

It’s not about the powers, man; it’s that we aren’t kids anymore. Look what we’ve been through. Look what we’ve done. Look at yourself, surfer dude. We’ve done something none of our parents have even come close to. We didn’t take over their boring world; we took over a world about a thousand times tougher. If we walk out of this alive, we won’t have to bow our heads to anyone.

Michael Grant

Do you know, Sandy dear, all my ambitions are for you and Rose. You have got insight, perhaps not quite spiritual, but you're a deep one, and Rose has got instinct.' 'Perhaps not quite spiritual' said Sandy.'Yes,' said Miss Brodie, 'you're right. Rose has got a future by virtue of her instinct.'...'I ought to know because my prime has brought me instinct and insight, both.

Muriel Spark

To nourish a tree you must get to the roots, the same is true if you must uproot it.

TemitOpe Ibrahim

What you see and feel depends on what you know and what you are looking for.

Debasish Mridha

When would insight, knowledge, hope, and beauty meld?

Larry Kramer

Despite the mountain of gold that has been built downtown, Los Angeles remains vulnerable to the same explosive convergence of street anger, poverty, environmental crisis, and capital flight that made the early 1990s its worth crisis period since the early Depression.

Mike Davis

To excel in life, one must become conscious that the way lived is not the only way of living.

Anonymous

For a man who was to exhibit such acute political sharpness later in his career, Napoleon completely misread the revolution's opening stages. 'I repeat what I have said to you,' he wrote to Joseph on July 22, a week after the fall of the Bastille, 'calm will return. In a month, there will no longer be a question of anything. So, if you send me 300 livres [7,500 francs] I will go to Paris to terminate our business.

Andrew Roberts

In the end, we will conserve only what we love; we will love only what we understand and we will understand only what we are taught.

Baba Dioum

He had a look of composed dissatisfaction, as if he understood life thoroughly.

Flannery O'Connor

The perishableness of life...imparts value, dignity, interest to life.

Thomas Mann

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