Quotes About Insight

We possess only the happiness we are able to understand.

If you can't think like an onion or a carrot or a tomato, you may be a technician, but you won't understand what you're doing, and your dish will be flat.

Those who understand only what can be explained understand very little.

When you take the time to understand why your parents did the things they did, you stand a good chance of learning more about your own behavior.

Even if one is interested only in one's own society, which is one's prerogative, one can understand that society much better by comparing it with others.

Then there is Abhimanyu Ray, Honey Trehan, Nandini Srikanth, Shanoo Sharma, we have so many great casting directors who have nothing to do with acting. You just need to have a great eye to understand the character.

The problem with data is that it says a lot, but it also says nothing. 'Big data' is terrific, but it's usually thin. To understand why something is happening, we have to engage in both forensics and guess work.

I keep hearing from readers who say 'Hoax' helps them understand their own family a little bit better.

It was inevitable that in doing this I should arrive at new results, and it is perhaps understandable that in the end I have felt impelled to present these results not only in the dry form of a catalogue, but also in a more connected and personal one.

Knowing policy does help make the gossip more understandable.

I know I have not always been understandable and that I was guided for too long by stubborn naivety, which created confusion.

Much learning does not teach understanding.

The more knowledge you've got, the more understanding you have, the better you are able to implement and pass it on to others.

Fullness of knowledge always means some understanding of the depths of our ignorance; and that is always conducive to humility and reverence.

Knowing is not understanding. There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it.

The method of political science is the interpretation of life; its instrument is insight, a nice understanding of subtle, unformulated conditions.

For me context is the key - from that comes the understanding of everything.

My investment advice is rooted in my understanding of economics.

It is literature which for me opened the mysterious and decisive doors of imagination and understanding. To see the way others see. To think the way others think. And above all, to feel.

When the heart flies out before the understanding, it saves the judgment a world of pains.

Those who are not very good at understanding mental health issues are not going to know what other people are going through in depression. You have to kind of put yourself in somebody else's shoes.

Meditation is to get insight, to get understanding and compassion, and when you have them, you are compelled to act.

No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.

Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.