Insight Quotes

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Insight must precede application.

  Max Planck

  Application

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• There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Terrible, Activity

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• Insight without action is worthless.

  Marie Forleo

  Action, Worthless

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

  Lewis Carroll

  Baseball, Travel, Goals Dreams

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  The best vision is insight.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Inspirational, Business, Imagination

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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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• 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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• 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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• Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Business, Learning, Planning

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• No one wants to know how clever you are. They don't want an insight into your mind, thrilling as it might be. They want an insight into their own.

  Mark Haddon

  Clever, Mind, Literature

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• Seek first to understand, then to be understood.

  Stephen Covey

  Love, Inspirational, Relationship

  Stephen R. Covey (2013). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change”, p.267, Simon and Schuster

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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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  Shut your eyes and see.

  James Joyce

  Eye, Zeus

  James Joyce (2013). “Four Novels by James Joyce”, p.67, eBookIt.com

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• The pleasure of the soul appears to be found in the journey of discovery, the unfolding revelation of expanded insight and experience.

  Anthony Lawlor

  Journey, Discovery, Soul

  Anthony Lawlor (1997). “A Home for the Soul: A Guide for Dwelling with Spirit and Imagination”, Clarkson Potter Publishers

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• Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Teacher, Retirement, Teaching

  Warren G. Bennis, Patricia Ward Biederman (1997). “Organizing Genius: The Secrets of Creative Collaboration”, p.8, Basic Books

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• Curiosity is the greatest source of ideas, retail revolutions, and insights.

  Michael J. Silverstein

  Ideas, Curiosity, Retail

  Michael J. Silverstein, Dylan Bolden, Rune Jacobsen, Rohan Sajdeh (2015). “Rocket: Eight Lessons to Secure Infinite Growth”, p.6, McGraw Hill Professional

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