Insight Quotes

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

“Hell didn't make me a monster. It just confirmed all my worst fears about myself.”
― Richard Kadrey, Devil Said Bang

“To fulfill your vision, you must have hindsight, insight and foresight.”
― Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

“It may be necessary to stand on the outside of one is to see things clearly.”
― Peter Høeg, Tales of the Night

“You can always tell the heart of man by what he do, and by what he don't do...”
― Steven J. Carroll, The Road to Jericho

“All my instincts are one way, and all the facts are the other, and I much fear that British juries have not yet attained that pitch of intelligence when they will give the preference to my theories over Lestrade's facts.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Norwood Builder - a Sherlock Holmes Short Story

“I never assume anything. I anticipate the possibilities and allow my imagination to create the future.”
― Lionel Suggs

“We humans are prone to err, and to err systematically, outrageously, and with utter confidence. We are also prone to hold our mistaken notions dear, protecting and nourishing them like our own children. We defend them at great cost. We surround ourselves with safe people, people who will appreciate our cherished views. We avoid those who suggest that our exalted ideas, our little emperors, have no clothes.”
― Valerie Tarico, Trusting Doubt: A Former Evangelical Looks at Old Beliefs in a New Light

“It seems like all the time people are making themselves themselves, but they don't really know it. You can only have true visions when you look behind. A person can slide so fast into being something they never really intended. I wonder if you can truly resurrect your own self.”
― Elizabeth Berg

“There are patterns in everything, in the whole of Nature, from the way the stars turn in the heavens to the whorl of a shell or the petals of a flower and the way leaves arrange themselves about a twig. There are forces, hidden forces. If I can discover what they are, how they operate, I will have my hands upon the levers of creation and can work them myself.”
― Celia Rees, The Fool's Girl

“It seems to me that my whole life I've been standing on some tower or a pillbox or a trampoline, waving the names of writers, as if we needed rescue. And the first person I had to rescue was myself.”
― John Leonard, Reading for My Life: Writings, 1958-2008

“It's very difficult to keep the line between the past and the present.”
― Edith Beale