686 Quotes About Insight

You can only fail to pick the Castellan's pocket once

Of the obstacles we face while traversing life, the most challenging are often the ones we create from within and project onto our path.

In vain does the disguised traveller inwardly rebel against the influences and impressions which are wearing away his real self. The impressions of the past lose more and more their hold on him until they fade away, leaving the traveller hopelessly struggling in the toils of his own fiction, and the rôle he had assumed soon becomes second nature with him.

I rarely take time to feel embarrassed. I just figure it's God keeping me humble, and try not to mess up again.

Change will lead to insight far more often than insight will lead to change.

Everything can be seen directly except the eye through which we see.

Ultimately, we are all products of the experiences we have and the decisions we make as children, and it remains a peculiar detail of the human condition that something as precious as a future is entrusted to us when we possess so little foresight. Perhaps that’s what makes hindsight so intriguing. When you’re young the future is a blank canvas, but looking back you are always able to see the big picture.

Insights, after all, come from the overlap between seemingly unrelated thoughts. They emerge when concepts are transposed, when the rules of one place are shifted to a new domain.

Use beautiful to describe a sandwich, and the word means nothing.