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• Finding out what particular insights mean to people in other traditions enables us not only to respect but to love the wisdom of other religions.

  Thomas Keating

  Mean, People, Tradition

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• The humble person is open to being corrected, whereas the arrogant is clearly closed to it. Proud people are supremely confident in their own opinions and insights. No one can admonish them successfully: not a peer, not a local superior, not even the pope himself. They know - and that is the end of the matter. Filled as they are with their own views, the arrogant lack the capacity to see another view.

  Thomas Dubay

  Humble, Views, People

  Thomas Dubay (1997). “Authenticity: A Biblical Theology of Discernment”, p.132, Ignatius Press

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• Monks, one thing, if practiced and made much of, conduces to great thrill, great profit, great security after the toil, to mindfulness and self-possession, to the winning of knowledge and insight, to pleasant living in this very life, to the realization of the fruit of release by knowledge. What is that one thing: It is mindfulness centered on the body.

  Gautama Buddha

  Philosophy, Winning, Self

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• I am convinced that the Black man will only reach his full potential when he learns to draw upon the strengths and insights of the Black woman.

  Manning Marable

  Strength, Women, African American

  Manning Marable (1988). “The Crisis of Color and Democracy: Essays on Race, Class, and Power”

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• A large part of academic community is unthinkingly self-involved, producing reams of sterile writing - often consuming unbelievable amounts of public funds - and serving as an instruction manual for how to chase away readers and ignore historical insights.

  Gotz Aly

  Writing, Self, Community

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• This is the other secret that real artists know and wannabe writers don’t. When we sit down each day and do our work, power concentrates around us. The Muse takes note of our dedication. She approves. We have earned favor in her sight. When we sit down and work, we become like a magnetized rod that attracts iron filings. Ideas come. Insights accrete.

  Steven Pressfield

  Real, Artist, Dedication

  Steven Pressfield (2002). “The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles”, p.108, Black Irish Entertainment LLC

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• How many thoughts float in and out of your head without your stopping to identify them? How many ideas and insights have escaped because you forgot to pay attention?

  Maria Konnikova

  Ideas, Stopping, Attention

  Maria Konnikova (2013). “Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes”, p.16, Penguin

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• Wisdom is not book learning but, rather, a quality or state of knowing what is true or right coupled with the judgment to discern constructive action. Wisdom is the insight and intuition contained in the proverbial still, small voice that only a quiet mind can hear and know.

  Sue Thoele

  Wisdom, Book, Voice

  Sue Patton Thoele (2008). “The Mindful Woman: Gentle Practices for Restoring Calm, Finding Balance, and Opening Your Heart”, p.96, New Harbinger Publications

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• A zebra does not change its spots.

  Al Gore

  Witty, Zebras, Inspiration

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When your back is against the wall, there is only one thing to do, and that is turn around and fight.

  John Major

  Funny, Motivational, Wall

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• The first act of insight is throw away the labels.

  Eudora Welty

  Understanding, Labels, Firsts

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• Never look for the story in the 'lede.' Reporters are required to put what's happened up top, but the practiced pundit places a nugget of news, even a startling insight, halfway down the column, directed at the politiscenti. When pressed for time, the savvy reader starts there.

  William Safire

  Nuggets, Looks, News

  "How to Read a Column" by William Safire, www.nytimes.com. January 24, 2005.

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• Most photographs, to me, are description, but they lack insight.

  Duane Michals

  Photograph, Description

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• A reader kindly pointed out to me recently that most of the quotes I include are by men. And it's true. Personally, I don't even consider whether the author is male or female, nor even care much who the author is - what's significant is the message. Of course, women are equally capable of great insights, however in our culture it's not so long ago that women could not even be published

  Charlotte Bronte

  Men, Long Ago, Males

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• Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality. I have been for many years a teacher of languages. It is an occupation which at length becomes fatal to whatever share of imagination, observation, and insight an ordinary person may be heir to. To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot.

  Joseph Conrad

  Teacher, Reality, Men

  Joseph Conrad (2016). “Joseph Conrad: The Complete Novels [Nostromo, Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, The Secret Agent, etc.] (Book House)”, p.1433, Book House

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• So often actors only mix with actors, which is quite incestuous, and doesn't give them the insight into how other people work.

  Penelope Keith

  People, Giving, Actors

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• And let me adde, that he that throughly understands the nature of Ferments and Fermentations, shall probably be much better able than he that Ignores them, to give a fair account of divers Phænomena of severall diseases (as well Feavers and others) which will perhaps be never throughly understood, without an insight into the doctrine of Fermentation.

  Robert Boyle

  Giving, Doctrine, Disease

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• I think it's really hard to find a good women's magazine, and I like that Glamour is way more about what you want and not what your man wants. I don't really know what it's like to be a woman yet, so I wouldn't have too much insight, but I guess it would be a bit interesting to have more of that granny style in there. Because I think it should be easier for women to feel like they don't have to be conventionally attractive or think of flattering clothing before they think of fun clothing.

  Tavi Gevinson

  Fun, Thinking, Men

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• Obedience to God's will is the secret of spiritual knowledge and insight.

  Eric Liddell

  Spiritual, Secret, Obedience

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• Ideally a painter (and, generally, an artist) should not become conscious of his insights: without taking the detour through his reflective processes, and incomprehensibly to himself, all his progress should enter so swiftly into the work that he is unable to recognize them in the moment of transition. Alas, the artist who waits in ambush there, watching, detaining them, will find them transformed like the beautiful gold in the fairy tale which cannot remain gold because some small detail was not taken care of.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Beautiful, Taken, Creativity

  Letter to his wife (October 21, 1907). "Letters on Cézanne". Book by Rainer Maria Rilke, 1952.

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• Insight doesn't happen often on the click of the moment, like a lucky snapshot, but comes in its own time and more slowly and from nowhere but within.

  Eudora Welty

  Understanding, Lucky, Snapshots

  Eudora Welty (1996). “One Time, One Place: Mississippi in the Depression : a Snapshot Album”, p.12, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• It is clear that all verbal structures with meaning are verbal imitations of that elusive psychological and physiological process known as thought, a process stumbling through emotional entanglements, sudden irrational convictions, involuntary gleams of insight, rationalized prejudices, and blocks of panic and inertia, finally to reach a completely incommunicable intuition.

  Northrop Frye

  Block, Emotional, Thinking

  Northrop Frye (2015). “Anatomy of Criticism”, p.83, Princeton University Press

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• Those we call saints rebelled against an outmoded and inadequate form of God on the basis of their new insights into divinity.

  Rollo May

  Saint, Divinity, Form

  Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.35, W. W. Norton & Company

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• You carry Mother Earth within you. She is not outside of you. Mother Earth is not just your environment. In that insight of inter-being, it is possible to have real communication with the Earth, which is the highest form of prayer.

  Nhat Hanh

  Inspirational, Life, Change

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• I think people who write programs do have at least a glimmer of extra insight into the nature of God... because creating a program often means that you have to create a small universe

  Donald Knuth

  Inspirational, Writing, Mean

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