#Insight Quotes

“Genius seems to consistent merely in trueness of sight.”

“When most I wink, then do my eyes best see”

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

“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.”

“Life is unnecessarily long. Moments of insight, of fine personal relation, a smile, a glance,--what ample borrowers of eternity they are!”

“The world is his who can see through its pretension.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I have had my vision.”

“Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.”

“The mind which is most capable of receiving impressions is very often the least capable of drawing conclusions.”

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

“We sometimes from dreams pick up some hint worth improving by reflection.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

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

“The duller eye may often see a thing sooner than the keener.”

“Knowledge is the rediscovering of our own insight.”

“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.”