Insight Quotes

Littlewood, on Hardy's own estimate, is the finest mathematician he has ever known. He was the man most likely to storm and smash a really deep and formidable problem; there was no one else who could command such a combination of insight, technique and power.

It takes critical thinking to frame the right problem and empathetic thinking to address the correct need.

Perhaps one day, all these conflicts will end, and it won't be because of great statesmen or churches or organisations like this one. It'll be because people have changed. They'll be like you, Puffin. More a mixture. So why not become a mongrel? It's healthy.

Sometimes life holds more than people allow themselves to see. Such individuals may continue to live as though they are blind for eternities before realizing they were merely clamping their eyes shut.

How can things get done if you behave like what you despise.

Friends are the family you choose (~ Nin/Ithilnin, Elven rogue).

Vision is the foresight or forecast or insight into the future. Vision is the picture of one's destiny or accomplishment, or simply what a person is meant to do or become.

For all its complexity, however, astrology remains fundamentally simple. It offers a time-honored system of symbols that sum up key aspects of human life while providing profound insights and practical guidance.

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.

Partings are the beginnings of new meetings.Beginnings happen because there are endings.

It is the time to tremendous awakening toward “inquisitiveness” with cross-cultural sharing through technology and inner insights.

Don't make homes out of hollow hero's that don't know how to save themselves.

Books and drafts mean something quite different for different thinkers. One collects in a book the lights he was able to steal and carry home swiftly out of the rays of some insight that suddenly dawned on him, while another thinker offers us nothing but shadows - images in black and grey of what had built up in his soul the day before.

Inspiration is the result of moments of insight and a key component of internal “drive.

Anya looked upon Nin admirably. Having him as a partner-in-crime—if only on this one occasion, which she hoped would only be the start of something more—was more revitalizing than the cheap thrills of a cookie-cutter shallow, superficial romance, where the top priority was how beautiful a person was on the outside.

It's always easy to conquer the hungry with a piece of bread. Only the wise can conquer the strong

The purpose of setting communication principles is to build an effective digital workplace where collaboration and sharing are the norms.

The value of an individual is measured based on productivity, creativity, and contribution to the organization today and tomorrow.

Some people have the license to sin: Soldiers, to kill; politicians, writers, priests, businessmen, married man and women, to lie; and married couples to have sex

Choices are few and sometimes one, to him who hath wisdom; but in abundance are they to the heart of he who lacketh understanding.

Both science and spirituality tell us today that meditation and mindfulness strengthen mental control. The more we feel conscious of, and in control of our thoughts and our emotions, the more empowered we become to take effective action that is most suitable for our health and our life.

The benefit of such horizontal interactions - people sharing knowledge across fields - is that it encourages conceptual blending, which is an extremely important part of the insight process.

There was no mistaking her sincerity--it breathed in every tone of her voice. Both Marilla and Mrs. Lynde recognized its unmistakable ring. But the former understood in dismay that Anne was actually enjoying her valley of humiliation--was reveling in the thoroughness of her abasement. Where was the wholesome punishment upon which she, Marilla, had plumed herself? Anne had turned it into a species of positive pleasure.

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.

Destiny is the established end of someone while vision remarks the photos of that predestined end, though not yet fulfilled. The insight of an unexperienced destiny can be discovered. That is through visions.

Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, wishes. Who looks inside, finds infinite wisdom.

You cannot skip the beginning and hope to reach the end. You will fall as soon as you get there

Divinity retains the appearance of insight, when in reality it celebrates ignorance. Its tenets are so much clay, and when the clay sets, it becomes dogma.

Try to get inside the world of Homer and see what it would be like to think with his view of reality. Only then can you begin to judge it, because only then do you really understand it.

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

Any man filled with empathy is capable of gaining valuable insights on the human condition through the suffering of others. You do not need to suffer to know suffering, but you need empathy first to identify and feel the suffering of others around you.

The problem with satisfaction is it's a bottomless pit

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

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

Stand tall, my friends, when the fool comes around.

If you make change part of your operation routine and your DNA, and then change becomes easier to deal with, and even become an ongoing core business capability.

People who are not blessed with the ability to make others laugh compensate for that by saying (or trying to say) things that are profound.

Listen to what you have written. A dud rhythm in a passage of dialogue may show that you don't yet understand the characters well enough to write in their vo

[Mathematics] is security. Certainty. Truth. Beauty. Insight. Structure. Architecture. I see mathematics, the part of human knowledge that I call mathematics, as one thing—one great, glorious thing. Whether it is differential topology, or functional analysis, or homological algebra, it is all one thing. ... They are intimately interconnected, they are all facets of the same thing. That interconnection, that architecture, is secure truth and is beauty. That's what mathematics is to me.

Experience is hard to acquire. Only the wise acquire it

Short prayers with long legs travel far.

I mean that it's all right to go to bed with an asshole but don't ever have a baby with one.

But before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself.

Keeping hatred against someone is like helping him to torture you

I think it is best to know what you are and make peace with it.

Tom's theory of why human beings had yet to receive any message from extraterrestrial intelligences was that all civilizations, without exception, blew themselves up almost as soon as they were able to get a message out, never lasting more than a few decades in a galaxy whose age was billions; blinking in and out of existence so fast that, even if the galaxy abounded with earthlike planets, the chances of one civilization sticking around to get a message from another were vanishingly low, because it was too damned easy to split the atom.

All humans are sentient and sapient beings so they have the ability to perceive, think, and act using their knowledge, experience, insight, and conscience.

It's not my fault you have the attention span of a gnat, capable of only thumbing through the crap on Facebook, instead of reading something of worth that can change your life. No, I'm not talking about Oprah's or Ellen's book either.

Time and time again one has seen, even in people not particularly given to reflection, that the best way of finding a solution is to let one’s thoughts drift until the right moment comes to pounce, like a tiger taking its prey by surprise.

Where there is a true art and genuine virtuosity the artist can paint an incomparable masterpiece without leaving even a trace of his identity.

You can always tell the heart of man by what he do, and by what he don't do...

There was such a difference, he thought, between the beauty that illuminated, and the beauty that was illuminated.

To make change sustain, the important thing is “end-to-end” performance.

Enlightenment is not about attaining an ultimate level of intelligence or intellect. It is regained by shedding all the ideas, illusion and binds thrust on you and that you then so readily accrue.

It's not what we can do that makes us great, but what we can do but don't which make us great

There can be no excellence without insight.

A sober friend from Texas said once that the three things I cannot change are the past, the truth, and you. I hate this insight so much.

Mindfulness may help you gain insight into your role in conflicts with others, it won’t single-highhandedly help you resolve them.

Love is like a prison..difficult to breakout,painful to get caught and easier to get in.

Leaders walk their talks. They don’t give theories that do not work. They have clarity into their dreams and insight into their directions!