Insight Quotes

What you see and feel depends on what you know and what you are looking for.

~ Debasish Mridha

When would insight, knowledge, hope, and beauty meld?

~ Larry Kramer

Despite the mountain of gold that has been built downtown, Los Angeles remains vulnerable to the same explosive convergence of street anger, poverty, environmental crisis, and capital flight that made the early 1990s its worth crisis period since the early Depression.

~ Mike Davis

For a man who was to exhibit such acute political sharpness later in his career, Napoleon completely misread the revolution's opening stages. 'I repeat what I have said to you,' he wrote to Joseph on July 22, a week after the fall of the Bastille, 'calm will return. In a month, there will no longer be a question of anything. So, if you send me 300 livres [7,500 francs] I will go to Paris to terminate our business.

~ Andrew Roberts

In the end, we will conserve only what we love; we will love only what we understand and we will understand only what we are taught.

~ Baba Dioum

He had a look of composed dissatisfaction, as if he understood life thoroughly.

~ Flannery O'connor

The perishableness of life...imparts value, dignity, interest to life.

~ Thomas Mann

Verily all things move within your being in constant half embrace, the desired and the dreaded, the repugnant and the cherished, the pursued and that which you would escape.These things move within you as lights and shadows in pairs that cling.And when the shadow fades and is no more, the light that lingers becomes a shadow to another light.And thus your freedom when it loses its fetters becomes itself the fetter of a greater freedom.

~ Kahlil Gibran

If you help someones bank account rise But you can't help their heart feel... Really, what is your value?

~ Nikki Rowe

I've always been fascinated by weather.

~ Shepard Smith

The Widdern — the non-magical world, where science rules and many people believe that magic only exists in books. They’re wrong.

~ Caro King

Let us then understand at once that change or variety is as much a necessity to the human heart and brain in buildings as in books; that there is no merit, though there is some occasional use, in monotony; and that we must no more expect to derive either pleasure or profit from an architecture whose ornaments are of one pattern, and whose pillars are of one proportion, than we should of a universe in which the clouds were all of one shape, and the trees all of one shape.

~ John Ruskin

Child, you do not forgive because the person who wronged deserves it.You misunderstand the point of forgiveness entirely. The only cage that a grudge creates is around the holder of that grudge. Forgiveness is not saying that the person who hurt you was right, or has earned it, or is allowed to hurt you again. All forgiveness means is that you will carry on without the burdens of rage and hatred.

~ Merrie Haskell

You can only fail to pick the Castellan's pocket once

~ Brian Farrey

I asked him: Why didn’t you just tell me? He said: ‘If I tell you, you’ll just forget at some critical point. If you figure it out for yourself, you’ll always remember.

~ Merrie Haskell

Dad fastens his knife jacket before putting his black pea coat on. He’s like a walking armoury. He has two guns on either side of his chest secured in his black shoulder holsters, an array of magazines on his belt and of course the knives. I don’t need to check to know he has two more guns strapped to both his legs. With his dark coat on, dark jeans and boots, and his weapons hidden away, he looks imposing but harmless. Unsuspecting people would never think of him otherwise.He cocks his head. “Too much?” he asks.

~ M. Rees

I rarely take time to feel embarrassed. I just figure it's God keeping me humble, and try not to mess up again.

~ Peggy Perry

In vain does the disguised traveller inwardly rebel against the influences and impressions which are wearing away his real self. The impressions of the past lose more and more their hold on him until they fade away, leaving the traveller hopelessly struggling in the toils of his own fiction, and the rôle he had assumed soon becomes second nature with him.

~ Ármin Vámbéry

Ultimately, we are all products of the experiences we have and the decisions we make as children, and it remains a peculiar detail of the human condition that something as precious as a future is entrusted to us when we possess so little foresight. Perhaps that’s what makes hindsight so intriguing. When you’re young the future is a blank canvas, but looking back you are always able to see the big picture.

~ Simon Pegg

Everything can be seen directly except the eye through which we see.

~ Ernst F. Schumacher

Use beautiful to describe a sandwich, and the word means nothing.

~ Jess Walter

Change will lead to insight far more often than insight will lead to change.

~ Milton H. Erickson

Insights, after all, come from the overlap between seemingly unrelated thoughts. They emerge when concepts are transposed, when the rules of one place are shifted to a new domain.

~ Jonah Lehrer

When you’re poor and hungry and frightened of failure, you often don’t have the luxury of high values, lofty goals, and social conscience. Funny how fear and poverty will acid-wash your value set, burn away all the flimflam and artifice and learned morality and leave you with nothing but the urgency of survival. - Dr. Dan Trix - Chasing the Horizon.

~ Rodney Romig

I was a sinner. I knew that without a doubt. But I was not alone. And the night was the accomplice of us all.

~ William Kent Krueger

People are wonderful one at a time. Each one of them has an entire hologram of the universe somewhere within them.

~ George Carlin

Fate is a lazy man’s excuse for avoiding curiosity.

~ Brian Farrey

Sudden revelations vanish just as suddenly.

~ Marty Rubin

Understanding’s not enough. Understanding’s from outside; merely a function of the mind. [. . .] To enter, that’s the secret. To become the bridge, to crawl into its sap, to sway with it, to rot over centuries as its heartwood rots. When you are the bridge you will know what the bridge knows. It takes time. A lifetime. And skill.

~ Catherine Fisher

Evidence is the debris of a careless mind.

~ Brian Farrey

Accusations are merely the envy of the unenlightened given form.

~ Brian Farrey

Now here's the thing about being a little off-center; you're never sure if you're a bona fide loon or if you have insight that other people don't have.You have to navigate through life using a kind of psychic gyroscope to keep from falling too far one way or another, and you feel a peculiar kinship with other people who are also a little bit off-center.

~ Blaize Clement

What man knows is little enough and most of his general concepts in every field are vitiated by the artificial concepts he has created to cover his ignorance. These concepts must be destroyed. One tool exists that can accomplish this destruction, and this tool is in your hands. It is simply curiosity—the instinct to ask and to question. It should be kept sharp and used without mercy.

~ Charles H. Hapgood

When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.

~ Socrates

Whether the bear beats the wolf or the wolf beats the bear, the rabbit always loses.

~ Robert Jordan

Two things are to be remembered: that a man whose opinions and theories are worth studying may be presumed to have had some intelligence, but that no man is likely to have arrived at complete and final truth on any subject whatever. When an intelligent man expresses a view which seems to us obviously absurd, we should not attempt to prove that it is somehow true, but we should try to understand how it ever came toseemtrue. Thisexercise of historical and psychological imagination at once enlarges the scope of our thinking, and helps us to realize how foolish many of our own cherished prejudices will seem to an age which has a different temper of mind.

~ Bertrand Russell

He was shaken by an unwelcome insight. Lives did not add as integers. They added as infinities.

~ Lois Mcmaster Bujold

The dilemma of the critic has always been that if he knows enough to speak with authority, he knows too much to speak with detach

~ Raymond Chandler

When it happens to you, you will be surprised. That thing they say about how you knew all the time but just weren't facing it? That might be the case, but nevertheless, there you will be. You will feel like you have been kicked in the stomach, that your insides have just separated to make room for something big.

~ Molly Ringwald

I knew everything! Yet, I'm still not perfect.

~ Kent Ian N. Cny