Quotes About Insight

Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.

Alchemy is a kind of philosophy: a kind of thinking that leads to a way of understanding.

Without understanding your history, you can't get a perspective about the present.

People of little understanding are most apt to be angry when their sense is called into question.

There are few things that are more revealing about someone than the way that they talk about a piece of literature or a play. You very quickly come to have a much deeper understanding of someone than you would if you just mingled together in a pub saying, 'All right, how are you?'

If I experiment enough, I get a deeper understanding.

Understanding POV is essential, or ought to be.

The use of the term art medium is, to say the least, misleading, for it is the artist that creates a work of art not the medium. It is the artist in photography that gives form to content by a distillation of ideas, thought, experience, insight and understanding.

Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.

That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of information, and less and less understanding.

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

Only the misfortune of exile can provide the in-depth understanding and the overview into the realities of the world.

I'm just getting older and I'm understanding the game and I'm more experienced in the league.

I started by just sitting by the chessboard exploring things. I didn't even have books at first, and I just played by myself. I learnt a lot from that, and I feel that it is a big reason why I now have a good intuitive understanding of chess.

Read with care, George Orwell's diaries, from the years 1931 to 1949, can greatly enrich our understanding of how Orwell transmuted the raw material of everyday experience into some of his best-known novels and polemics.

I used to think 'King Lear' was an analysis of insanity, but I don't really think it is. When Lear is supposed to be at his most insane, he is actually understanding the world for the first time.

As a player, I've always been interested in understanding the coaches' minds, in seeing how they made a group function.

To solve the Cube, you need special skills and understanding. For example, pattern recognition is very important to solve the Cube.

My father was a die maker for 39 years, so I had a basic understanding of the automobile industry and what the manufacturing world was like, just from the opportunity to spend time with him - just talking, because he was a car buff.

The analysis of concepts is for the understanding nothing more than what the magnifying glass is for sight.

Learn to see a problem from a higher level of understanding. Then, it dissolves before your eyes.

You need a graphic understanding of a situation to make a complete judgment and we didn't have that.

I'm not interested in playing characters who see the world through my prism; I think the journey of understanding any character is to see how they tick and how they differ from you.

Understanding reduces the greatest to simplicity, and lack of its causes the least to take on the magnitude.