Top 513 Insights Quotes & Sayings

Many of the insights of the saint stem from his experience as a sinner.

Lack of comfort means we are on the threshold of new insights.

The very function of creativity, of the elaboration of the human condition only enlarges the human spirit and, I mean, as a writer I don't want to read political literature all the time. It would be terribly boring and, you know, abrasive, but just reading the insights, you know, partaking of the insights of a writer into phenomena, into society, into human relationships, both on a micro level and on a macro level, is already a function.

Not that that's the goal, but sometimes these funny insights can also be deeply profound.

Every game brings important insights.

An outstanding addition to the volumes written on value investing. Not only do the authors offer their own valuable insights but they have provided in one publication invaluable insights from some of the most accomplished professionals in the investment business. I would call this publication a must-read for any serious investor.

Come on. I don't have any problem violating my own insights in practice.

That's the power of great insights. Insights, not ideas. There's a difference. Ideas, valuable though they may be, are a dime a dozen in business. Insight is much rarer -- and therefore more precious. In the advertising business, a good idea can inspire a great commercial. But a good insight can fuel a thousand ideas, a thousand commercials.

Any honest inquiry into the reality of nature also yields insights about ourselves.

There is a lot in Adam Smith that reflects the insights of Rousseau and anticipates those of Marx.

In dialogue, individuals gain insights that simply could not be achieved individually.

People who design decision aids and information technologies usually try to help people perform their jobs better. But insights can show us how to perform our jobs differently. And so the decision aids and technologies can get in the way of insights!

Most high officials leave office with the perceptions and insights with which they entered.

Some problems are just too complicated for rational, logical solutions. They admit of insights, not answers.

Studying cancer could provide huge insights for astrobiologists into the nature of life itself.

We are surrounded by data, but starved for insights.

My mission is to bring the power of big data insights and analytics to every company.

Consistency is a virtue for trains: what we want from a philosopher is insights, whether he comes by them consistently or not.

There is an abundance of data available in the digital world and if it’s harnessed effectively and correctly it can provide terrific insights.

The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion or in politics, but it is not the path to knowledge, and there's no place for it in the endeavor of science. We do not know beforehand where fundamental insights will arise from about our mysterious and lovely solar system. The history of our study of our solar system shows us clearly that accepted and conventional ideas are often wrong, and that fundamental insights can arise from the most unexpected sources.

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

The power of Ayasdi is its unique ability to automatically discover insights - regardless of complexity - without asking questions.

Even bright people are going to have limited, really valuable insights in a very competitive world when they're fighting against other very bright, hardworking people. And it makes sense to load up on the very few good insights you have instead of pretending to know everything about everything at all times.

The paradox is that we have this amazing capacity in our minds and hearts to learn and gain insights and then to build a kind of personal storehouse of knowledge. The underside is that those insights harden and fill the spaces in our hearts and minds. They become assumptions, conclusions and judgments.

Designers are by nature more inquisitive, more connected. They dig a little deeper in terms of insights. They turn those insights into innovation. That connection to the consumer is absolutely critical in driving innovation. It’s critical that design isn’t subjugated to the back room as a short order cook for marketing or for merchandising or sales. It has to be up front.

Keeping a [journal] need not be a major chore-just a few minutes of notes each day can be valuable. Writing crystallizes insights, fools the defense of forgetfulness, and builds a collection of ideas and reflections that can spur further insights even years later.

We are what we are because of the hard work, insights and achievements of countless others.

I got some good insights.

A. Douglas Stone, a physicist who has spent his life using quantum mechanics to explore striking new phenomena, has turned his considerable writing skills to thinking about Einstein and the quantum. What he finds and makes broadly understandable are the riches of Einstein's thinking not about relativity, not about his arguments with Bohr, but about Einstein's deep insights into the quantum world, insights that Stone shows speak to us now with all the vividness and depth they had a century ago. This is a fascinating book, lively, engaging, and strong in physical intuition.

What's most explosive about historical fiction is to use the fictional elements to pressure the history to new insights.

The greatest of all insights is that we cannot be tomorrow what we do not do today.

Schooling deprived of religious insights is wretched education.

To the creative individual all experience is seminal-all events are equidistant from new ideasand insights.

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

Many of the insights of the saint stem from their experience as sinners.

Religious insights and values are just as important today as they were 50 or 100 years ago.

And yet there are some magnificent things from Freud, profound insights into the nature of man.

Insights don't usually arrive at my desk, but go into notebooks when I'm on the move. Or half-asleep.

The test of a true myth is that each time you return to it, new insights and interpretations arise.

To gain customer insights, we must understand that we are prisoners of what we know and what we believe.

Experience is not the poor relation of expertise. Valuable insights in business often come from the people on the ground.

Strength is derived from unity. The range of our collective vision is far greater when individual insights become one.

The capacities by which we can gain insights into higher worlds lie dormant within each one of us.

It is clear that while science provides insights into the complexity of the world around us, those insights...present a fractured mosaic rather than a seamless whole. There are profound limits to science that must be recognized if we are to minimize the destructive consequences of using the powers provided by scientific discovery.

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You cannot study other planets without referring to Earth and without applying the techniques and the insights of Earth science. And you cannot really do a good job understanding the Earth without the insights from planetary exploration.

What good are insights? They only make things worse.

Saying "no" has more creative power than ideas, insights and talent combined.

People got insights into what was bothering them, but they hardly did a damn thing to change.

It is instructive to see how organizations pursue their goal of reducing errors and uncertainty. They impose standards, employ checklists, demand that knowledge workers list assumptions for their conclusions and document all sources. These actions either directly interfere with forming insights or create an environment where insights and discoveries are treated with suspicion because they might lead to errors. They signal to knowledge workers that their job is not to make mistakes. Even if they don't make discoveries, no one can blame them as long as they don't make mistakes.

The knowledge and insights you can get in just one day at a writers' conference make it worth the trip.

In genomics, there's a massive amount of information in which you can look for patterns and develop insights.

Remarkable visions and genuine insights are always met with resistance.

The quest for the truth, in and of itself, Is a story that's filled with insights.

I hope that we can bridge the worlds of appearances and of insights, and thus rescue art from triviality, from 'sensation' alone.

The heart of mathematics consists of concrete examples and concrete problems. Big general theories are usually afterthoughts based on small but profound insights; the insights themselves come from concrete special cases.

What art should be about,' they will say, 'is revealing exquisite and resonant truths about the human condition.' Well, to be honest - no, it shouldn’t. I mean, it can occasionally, if it wants to; but really, how many penetrating insights to human nature do you need in one lifetime? Two? Three? Once you’ve realised that no one else has a clue what they’re doing, either, and that love can be totally pointless, any further insights into human nature just start getting depressing really.

Some of the 'aha' insights that scientists strive for may have to await the emergence of post-human intellects.

Time-honoured insights are often trivialised as cliches.

Different perspectives, experiences, and insights improve decision-making and lead to superior performance.