Insight Quotes

• We are surrounded by data, but starved for insights.

  Jay Baer

  Data

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• Discovery is the journey; insight is the destination.

  Gary Hamel

  Journey, Discovery, Destination

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• To learn and think; to think and live; to live and learn: this always, with new insight, new understanding, and new love.

  Sylvia Plath

  Thinking, Understanding, Live And Learn

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.167, Anchor

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

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Inspirational, Business, Wisdom Experience

  1857-8 The Professor at the Breakfast Table, ch.10.

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

  Socrates

  Wisdom, Philosophy, Wish

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• There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Terrible, Activity

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• Insight must precede application.

  Max Planck

  Application

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• Nothing in life is more exciting and rewarding than the sudden flash of insight that leaves you a changed person .

  Arthur Gordon Webster

  Life Is, Flash, Exciting

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  The best vision is insight.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Inspirational, Business, Imagination

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• If you don't know where you're going any road will do

  Lewis Carroll

  Baseball, Travel, Goals Dreams

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• Self examination is the key to insight, which is the key to wisdom

  M. Scott Peck

  Healing, Keys, Self

  M. Scott Peck (2010). “The Different Drum: Community Making and Peace”, p.66, Simon and Schuster

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• You cannot transmit wisdom and insight to another person. The seed is already there. A good teacher touches the seed, allowing it to wake up, to sprout, and to grow.

  Nhat Hanh

  Inspirational, Teacher, Wake Up

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2011). “Planting Seeds: Practicing Mindfulness with Children”, p.15, Parallax Press

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• Build bridges of insight through empathy, see the world through the eyes of others, understand the world through their experiences, and feel the world through their emotions.

  Tim Brown

  Eye, Bridges, Empathy

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• It's never enough to just tell people about some new insight. Rather, you have to get them to experience it a way that evokes its power and possibility. Instead of pouring knowledge into people's heads, you need to help them grind anew set of eyeglasses so they can see the world in a new way.

  John Seely Brown

  Education, Eyeglasses, People

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• What we already know frames what we see, and what we see frames what we understand.

  Paul Hawken

  Knows

  Paul Hawken (2007). “Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Social Movement in History Is Restoring Grace, Justice, and Beau ty to the World”, p.24, Penguin

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• To understand another human being you must gain some insight into the conditions which made him what he is.

  Margaret Bourke-White

  Gains, Made, Humans

  Margaret Bourke-White (2016). “Portrait of Myself”, p.149, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• Great insight comes from seeing something as odd and finding out why.

  Philip Kotler

  Odd, Findings, Seeing

  Interview With Bob Morris, bobmorris.biz. May 10, 2015.

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• The worst part a man can suffer is to have insight into much and power over nothing.

  Herodotus

  Power, Men, Suffering

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• The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Work, Acceptance, Men

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• Insight cannot be taken back. You cannot return to the moment you were in before.

  Hilary Mantel

  Taken, Return, Moments

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• The greatest of all miracles is that we need not be tomorrow what we are today. The greatest of all insights is that we cannot be tomorrow what we do not do today. That is why today matters.

  John C. Maxwell

  Motivational, Miracle, Needs

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• All the insight we will ever need to live well will come from fully being who and where we are.

  Brenda Shoshanna

  Needs, Who We Are, Live Well

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• Insight occurs when, and to the degree that, one knows oneself.

  Andrew Schneider

  Degrees, Spirituality, Spiritual Awareness

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• A lack of seriousness has led to all sorts of wonderful insights.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Creativity, Ideas, Imagination

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• When you let go, you lose pain and gain insight.

  Alexandra Stoddard

  Letting Go, Pain, Gains

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