Insight Quotes - page 3

One of the many interesting and surprising experiences of the beginner in child analysis is to find in even very young children a capacity for insight which is often far greater than that of adults. (Melanie Klein)
You do not attain to knowledge by remaining on the shore and watching the foaming waves, you must make the venture and cast yourself in, you must swim, alert and with all your force, even if a moment comes when you think you are losing consciousness; in this way, and in no other, do you reach anthropological insight. View quote
Martin Buber
I like reading novels because it provides insight into human behavior. View quote
Claire Danes
Many years ago, I think I got my first insight on how an incredibly diverse team can work together and do astonishing things, and not just misunderstand each other and fight. View quote
John Kotter
The deeper our insight into the methods of nature . . . the more incredible the popular Christianity seems to us. View quote
John Burroughs
No one wants to know how clever you are. They don't want an insight into your mind, thrilling as it might be. They want an insight into their own. View quote
Mark Haddon
I still recommend reading travel guides as an insight to a travellers perspective on fantasy worlds. Nearly all characters end up travelling at some point, and they have many of the same needs and concerns covered in travel guides. View quote
Trudi Canavan
Kitsch generates pseudonovelty with no new insight into reality, or else does not concern itself at all with the new and produces its effects with more or less academic eclecticism. View quote
Hermann Broch
Life goes on and the truth changes; this just happens to be the way life is. What was once true is often no longer true just a little while later. Yesterday's truth is today's bullshit. Even yesterday's liberating insight is today's jail of stale explanation. View quote
Brad Blanton
Living gives you a better understanding of life. I would hope that my characters have become deeper and more rounded personalities. Wider travels have given me considerably greater insight into how cultural differences affect not only people, but politics and art. View quote
Alan Dean Foster
It is a commonplace of all religious thought, even the most primitive, that the man seeking visions and insight must go apart from his fellows and love for a time in the wilderness. (Loren Eiseley)
To look for some kind of insight or meaning in pop songs is not really - well there's plenty of other places where you should probably look first before you start looking for it in a pop song. View quote
Jason Newsted
Of course fear does not automatically lead to courage. Injury does not necessarily lead to insight. Hardship will not automatically make us better. Pain can break us or make us wiser. Suffering can destroy us or make us stronger. Fear can cripple us, or it can make us more courageous. It is resilience that makes the difference. View quote
Eric Greitens
I am grateful for - though I can't keep up with - the flood of articles, theses, and textbooks that mean to share insight concerning the nature of poetry. View quote
A. R. Ammons
Only when inspired to go beyond consciousness by some extraordinary insight does beauty manifest unexpectedly. View quote
Arthur Erickson
I had a little insight into life that most kids probably didn't have. My mother was a schoolteacher, and my father was a social worker. Through his eyes I saw the underside of society. View quote
Charles Kuralt
Now it is evident that a little insight into the customs of every people is necessary to insure a kindly communication; this, joined with patience and kindness, will seldom fail with the natives of the interior. View quote
Charles Sturt
I read a whole bunch of bits and pieces over the years, obviously from the fan magazines and the rest of the stuff, and I just wanted to give a little more insight into what's happening in my personal life. View quote
Davy Jones
The more insight I get, the more scared I get of women in general. View quote
Dan Byrd
When you know the lyrics to a tune, you have some kind of insight as to it's composition. If you don't understand what it's about, you're depriving yourself of being really able to communicate this poem. View quote
Dexter Gordon
I want to share some insight into why someone would want to be a SEAL. A lot of us faced obstacles growing up. I didn't have any type of real nurturing as a kid. I hope people will relate to my story and go, 'Hey, if this guy can do it, so can I.' (Howard E. Wasdin)
Creativity and insight almost always involve an experience of acute pattern recognition: the eureka moment in which we perceive the interconnection between disparate concepts or ideas to reveal something new. View quote
Jason Silva
My work is to reach people with ideas, hopes, dreams, encouragement, insight, and revelation. That's what an actor wants to do. View quote
John Astin
Primates will continue to play social games without the least insight into what is killing them. View quote
Keith Henson
I am of the opinion that the appreciation and the desire for what is good takes more study and insight than does the understanding and test for the best music and art. View quote
Laurance Rockefeller