Insight Quotes

“The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.”

“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.”

“How many things have to happen to you before something occurs to you?”

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

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

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

“Because of acid, I now know that butter is way better than margarine.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Insight without action is worthless.”

“With the strength of his spiritual sight and insight the distance, and as it were the space, around man continually expands: his world grows deeper, ever new stars, ever new images and enigmas come into view.”

“There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.”

“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.”

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

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

“A leader is one who sees more than others see, who sees farther than others see, and who sees before others do." (Leroy Eims)”

“Seeing within changes one's outer vision.”

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

“Regrets are illuminations come too late.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

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