Insight Quotes

Man relates to material things through direct insight rather than reason.

I have no theory about dreams. I do not know how dreams arise. On the other hand, I know that if we meditate on a dream sufficiently long and thoroughly – if we take the boat with us and turn it over and over – something almost always comes out of it.

Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack.

Though I was careful never to mention it, I began to see a new dimension in everything that happened.

Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That's because they were able to connect experiences they've had and synthesize new things.

If through practice of insight you develop a sense of ease, then time has no relevance. If you're miserable, time does matter. It's so unbearable, so enormous you want to get out of it as soon as possible.

When I think of vision, I have in mind the ability to see above and beyond the majority.

For a significant manwoman, the one thought he values greatly, to the laughter and scorn of insignificant men, is a key to hidden treasure chambers; for those others, it is nothing but a piece of old iron.

I fervently wish no misery ever came near anyone; yet it is that alone that gives us an insight into the depths of our lives, does it not? In our moments of anguish, gates barred forever seem to open and let in many a flood of light.

For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it; it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and idiots, especially during youth.

I do not hesitate to read. all good books in translations. What is really best in any book is translatable-any real insight or broad human sentiment.

If you have no eyes, do not walk blindly; take a staff in your hand. If you have no staff of insight, do not walk without a guide.

We must be very suspicious of the deceptions of the element of time. It takes a good deal of time to eat or to sleep, or to earn ahundred dollars, and a very little time to entertain a hope and an insight which becomes the light of our life.

Deep insight will always, like Nature, ultimate its thought in a thing.

I never fully understood it till my friend Professor Tolkien asked me the very simple question, 'What class of men would you expect to be most preoccupied with, and hostile to, the idea of escape?' and gave the obvious answer: jailers.

The front aspect of great thoughts can only be enjoyed by those who stand on the side whence they arrive.

It's the beauty within us that makes it possible for us to recognize the beauty around us. The question is not what you look at but what you see.

There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

I had a feeling once about mathematics - that I saw it all... but it was after dinner and I let it go.

I can analyze people's intentions. Immediately. That's just a warning. To everyone.

Usually, I'm pretty good about sorting through the options and then making decisions that I'm confident are the best decisions in that moment, given the information we have. But there are times where I think I wish I could have imagined a different level of insight.

I think the artistry is in having an insight into what one sees around them. Generally putting things together in a way no one else has before and finding a way to express that to other people who don't have that insight.

Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact to add to our collection. He can give us the creative fact; the fertile fact; the fact that suggests and engenders.

It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.

Thinking is learning all over again how to see, directing one's consciousness, making of every image a privileged place.

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.

Observation is so wide awake, and facts are being so rapidly added to the sum of human experience, that it appears as if the theorizer would always be in arrears, and were doomed forever to arrive at imperfect conclusion; but the power to perceive a law is equally rare in all ages of the world, and depends but little on the number of facts observed.

It's like the sound of a chuckle in the darkness. The sense that some shattering and disarming simplicity is the real answer.

Insight that dawns slowly seems to me to have more lasting effects than a fitful idealism, which is unlikely to hold out for long.

Brilliant men are often strikingly ineffectual. They fail to realize that the brilliant insight is not by itself achievement. They never have learned that insights become effectiveness only through hard systematic work.

A stander-by may sometimes, perhaps, see more of the game than he that plays it.

A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.

Of course language is not an infallible guide, but it contains, with all its defects, a good deal of stored insight and experience.

If you are a seer, whenever you meet a man you will see all that he owns, ay, and much that he pretends to disown, behind him.

The great poet is always a seer, seeing less with the eyes of the body than he does with the eyes of the mind.

The wise trusts not only to his physical eyes - thus he can see clearly.

Give me insight into today and you may have the antique and future worlds.

Ask someone you'd like to know to list five people they would most like to meet. It will tell you a lot about them.

What is required is sight and insight- then you might add one more: excite.

Students and scholars of all kinds and of every age aim, as a rule, only at information, not insight. They make it a point of honour to have information about everything, every stone, plant, battle, or experiment and about all books, collectively and individually. It never occurs to them that information is merely a means to insight, but in itself is of little or no value.

The characters get challenged. Through getting challenged, the character arrives at insights or discovers potentials that he or she didn't know they had.

Science...is part and parcel of our knowledge and obscures our insight only when it holds that the understanding given by it is the only kind there is.

Creativity is seeing what others see and thinking what no one else has ever thought.

The common eye sees only the outside of things, and judges by that, but the seeing eye pierces through and reads the heart and the soul, finding there capacities which the outside didn't indicate or promise, and which the other kind of eye couldn't detect.

That in you which recognizes madness as madness (even if it is your own) is sanity, is the arising awareness, is the end of insanity.

Everything in science depends on what one calls an aperçu, on becoming aware of what is at the bottom of the phenomena. Such becoming aware is infinitely fertile.

Knowledge is the rediscovering of our own insight.

And for all I can tell, the only difference is that what many see we call a real thing, and what only one sees we call a dream. But things that many see may have no taste or moment in them at all, and things that are shown only to one may be spears and water-spouts of truth from the very depth of truth.

Insight without action is worthless.

The world is his who can see through its pretension.

When most I wink, then do my eyes best see

There is a quickness of perception in some, a nicety in the discernment of character, a natural penetration, in short, which no experience in others can equal.

Always to see the general in the particular is the very foundation of genius.

The only thing that the artist cannot see is the obvious. The only thing that the public can see is the obvious.

You can't tell what a man is like or what he is thinking when you are looking at him. You must get around behind him and see what he has been looking at.

I see through most people; I'm hardly ever wrong. I see at once what they've got in them.

Lasting fulfillment is attained only through gaining insight into the core of our human nature, unleashing the power to understand, appreciate, and enjoy our lives at the deepest level.

Seeing within changes one's outer vision.

I have had my vision.

A SEEING eye is better than three hundred blind men's: The eye can distinguish pearls from pebbles.