Quotes and Sayings About Insight
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There is not a single true work of art that has not in the end added to the inner freedom insight and life of each person who has known and loved it.
-- Albert Camus -
People got insights into what was bothering them, but they hardly did a damn thing to change.
-- Albert Ellis -
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.
-- Alexander Smith -
The sequence is suffering, insight, will, action, change.
-- Allen Wheelis -
Insight occurs when, and to the degree that, one knows oneself.
-- Andrew Schneider -
Man will become better when you show him what he is like.
-- Anton Chekhov -
Truthfulness itself is almost medication, even when it’s served without advice or insight.
-- Augusten Burroughs -
The purpose of visualization is insight, not pictures
-- Ben Shneiderman -
All the insight we will ever need to live well will come from fully being who and where we are.
-- Brenda Shoshanna -
Understanding requires insight. Insight must be anchored.
-- Brian Greene -
The quest for the truth, in and of itself, Is a story that's filled with insights.
-- Carolyn Porco -
This is the real power of habit: the insight that your habits are what you choose them to be.
-- Charles Duhigg -
Any supreme insight is a metaphor.
-- Charles Henry Parkhurst -
With age comes acumen. With experience comes insight.
-- Chris Bohjalian -
The more insight I get, the more scared I get of women in general.
-- Dan Byrd -
A huge insight was the power of simply telling employees the truth. If things aren’t going well, tell them.
-- David M. Cote -
In the window, I fantasize... about providing grown-ups and children alike with the greatest gift of all: insight...
-- David Rakoff -
Time-honoured insights are often trivialised as cliches.
-- Densey Clyne -
Outsiders often have an insight that an insider doesn't quite have.
-- Diane Abbott -
Empathy is the ultimate form of customer insight.
-- Don Peppers -
Most photographs, to me, are description, but they lack insight.
-- Duane Michals -
When mundane, lowly activities are at stake, too much insight is detrimental—far-sightedness errs in immediate concerns.
-- Franz Grillparzer -
... the true seeing is within; and painting stares at you with an insistent imperfection.
-- George Eliot -
The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.
-- George Orwell -
The main insight learned from interdisciplinary studies is the return to specialization
-- George Stigler -
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.
-- Glenn Close -
To understand ourselves and our life is the point of insight meditation: to understand and to be free.
-- Jack Kornfield -
The simpler the insight, the more profound the conclusion.
-- Janna Levin