Insight Quotes

It takes a person of great care and insight to watch for any abnormality in the green grass even whi...

Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

Darkness had fallen upon everything for him; but just because of this darkness he felt that the one ...

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

It’s true that if your religion failed to deliver a miracle, that a human sacrifice would certainly ...

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

The best vision is insight.

Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it p...

How could I have been so ignorant? she thinks. So stupid, so unseeing, so given over to carelessness...

I used to say to my classes that the ways to get insight are: to study infants; to study animals; to...

A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight andunderstanding.

The poet, the artist, the sleuth - whoever sharpens our perception tends to be antisocial; rarely "w...

I want you to write down your blessings.

They may have forgotten how badly they treated you, or they may pretend that they have forgotten. Bu...

Trust your brain to suggest a solution, then have the courage to follow through.

A person who is worth nothing must introduce you to a person worth next-to-nothing, and that person ...

I am afraid that our eyes are bigger than our stomachs, and that we have more curiosity than underst...

When it happens to you, you will be surprised. That thing they say about how you knew all the time b...

Do you know, Sandy dear, all my ambitions are for you and Rose. You have got insight, perhaps not qu...

The problem of knowledge is that there are many more books on birds written by ornithologists than b...

CHORONZON: I am a dire wolf, prey-stalking, lethal prowler.MORPHEUS: I am a hunter, horse-mounted, w...

CHORONZON: I am a dire wolf, prey-stalking, lethal prowler.MORPHEUS: I am a hunter, horse-mounted, w...

This is a book for every fiddler who has realized halfway through playing an ancient Scottish air th...

Books, which we mistake for consolation, only add depth to our sorrow.

Where there is a true art and genuine virtuosity the artist can paint an incomparable masterpiece wi...

Denna is a wild thing," I explained. "Like a hind or a summer storm. If a storm blows down your hous...

Break the glass, please, and free us from all these damned rules, from needing to find an explanatio...

Courage is often lack of insight, whereas cowardice in many cases is based on good information.

Everybody who flashed the signs of loyalty he took to be loyal. Everybody who flashed the signs of i...

Hoga Gothyelk no longer felt anger, not truly -- only varieties of sorrow.

Something ... made him feel small, not in the way of orphans or beggars or children, but in a good w...

Consequences lost all purchase when they became mad. And desperation, when pressed beyond anguish, b...

There was such a difference, he thought, between the beauty that illuminated, and the beauty that wa...

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

We could express this power in the following way: Most of the time we live in an interior world of d...

We could express this power in the following way: Most of the time we live in an interior world of d...

We could express this power in the following way: Most of the time we live in an interior world of d...

We could express this power in the following way: Most of the time we live in an interior world of d...

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

He comments on how amazing it is that everything in the universe can be described by the twenty-six ...

Phædrus wrote a letter from India about a pilgrimage to holy Mount Kailas, the source of the Ganges ...

We sometimes have a flash of understanding that amounts to the insight of genius, and yet it slowly ...

The women we really love are the women who complete us, who have the qualities we can borrow and so ...

I've always been fascinated by weather.

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

Mathilde made an effort to use the more intimate form; she was evidently more attentive to this unus...

There are no shortcuts to moral insight. Nature is not intrinsically anything that can offer comfort...

I used to hammer away at the idea of simplicity.In both fiction and non-fiction, there's only one qu...

A stumble may prevent a fall.

A stumble may prevent a fall.

A stumble may prevent a fall.

A stumble may prevent a fall.

A stumble may prevent a fall.

A stumble may prevent a fall.

A stumble may prevent a fall.

A stumble may prevent a fall.

The sinister, the terrible never deceive: the state in which they leave us is always one of enlighte...

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

Sounds travel through space long after their wave patterns have ceased to be detectable by the human...

Every secret of a writer’s soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind, is written...

Intelligence is composed mostly of imagination, insight, things that have nothing to do with reason.

The first and last weakness of his life, before him again. For a moment he felt himself blinded by h...

Not everybody has a talent for painting, or for the piano, or for dance. But we can write our way in...

Because it's much more pleasant to be obsessed over how the hero gets out of his predicament than it...

We can't expect a blind man to appreciate beautiful patterns or a deaf man to listen to bells and dr...

Psychoanalytic insight, Miller seems to suggest, is itself a pathological symptom.

who journeyed to Denver, who died in Denver, who came back to Denver & waited in vain, who watched o...

Everyone is a fuckin' Napoleon.

You have to make mistakes to find out who you aren't. You take the action, and the insight follows: ...

A sober friend from Texas said once that the three things I cannot change are the past, the truth, a...

All my instincts are one way, and all the facts are the other, and I much fear that British juries h...

The angers between women will not kill us if we can articulate them with precision, if we listen to ...

You don't read Gatsby, I said, to learn whether adultery is good or bad but to learn about how compl...

Two things are to be remembered: that a man whose opinions and theories are worth studying may be pr...

There can never be peace between nations until there is first known that true peace which... is with...

Science is the process that takes us from confusion to understanding...

Understanding requires insight. Insight must be anchored.

She could ask for anything, she thought dizzily, anything--an end to pain or world hunger or disease...

That which is not slightly distorted lacks sensible appeal; from which it follows that irregularity—...

And as for the vague something --- was it a sinister or a sorrowful, a designing or a desponding exp...

The voice says, maybe you don't go to hell for the things you do. Maybe you go to hell for the thing...

The world had opened out and so had the universe, or what she since had thought must have been the u...

If things far away don’t concern you, you’ll soon mourn things close at hand.

I don’t think being a comedian gives you any fucking insight into what makes people laugh.

Cameramen are among the most extraordinarily able and competent people I know. They have to have an ...

Everything takes time. Bees have to move very fast to stay still.

I mean that it's all right to go to bed with an asshole but don't ever have a baby with one.

I mean that it's all right to go to bed with an asshole but don't ever have a baby with one.

You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light.

I would rather be able to appreciate things I cannot have than to have things I am not able to appre...

Books and drafts mean something quite different for different thinkers. One collects in a book the l...

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

Love gives insight, Maggie, and insight often gives foreboding. Listen to me, let me supply you with...

Insight is the first condition of Art.

In retrospect, perhaps the biggest reason my mother was cared for but not helped for twenty years wa...

Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. It is, one is told, the unforgi...

Wonder—the enthusiastic ardor for the sublimity of being, for its worthiness to be an object of know...

But before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself.

Philanthropy is. . . greatly overrated. A pain in the gut is not sympathy for the underprivileged, b...

For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it; it can give a sort of intelligence to simpleton...