Quotes About Insight

Superior virtue must be the fruit of superior intelligence.

I think the virtue I prize above all others is curiosity. If you look really hard at almost anybody, and try to see why they're doing what they're doing, taking a dig at them ceases to be what you want to do even if you hate them.

What a liberating thing to realize that our problems are probably our richest sources for rising to the ultimate virtue of compassion.

Failing to see the point is not a virtue.

Tact is one of the first mental virtues, the absence of it is fatal to the best talent.

I pictured myself as a virus or a cancer cell and tried to sense what it would be like.

When you're watching Psycho, there' s that moment when you have a visceral reaction to watching someone being stabbed. And then you have the intellectual revelation that you're not, and that's where the celebration comes in.

Fine-tuning a play like 'Uncle Vanya,' which is already well-known to the people playing it, is not so much a verbal exercise as it is a visceral one.

I did direct two short movies. I learned many things, and one of the things I learned was that I am not a director. It has to be visceral, and it's not for me. I feel much more comfortable acting.

All there is to thinking is seeing something noticeable, which makes you see something you weren't noticing, which makes you see something that isn't even visible.

It is enjoyable to make things visible which are invisible.

If we look into ourselves we discover propensities which declare that our intellects have arisen from a lower form; could our minds be made visible we should find them tailed.

Surely one of the most visible lessons taught by the twentieth century has been the existence, not so much of a number of different realities, but of a number of different lenses with which to see the same reality.

The best vision is insight.

Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.

I describe management as arts, crafts and science. It is a practice that draws on arts, craft and science and there is a lot of craft - meaning experience - there is a certain amount of craft meaning insight, creativity and vision, and there is the use of science, technique or analysis.

True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.

My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is.

'Impressionism' was the name given to a certain form of observation when Monet, not content with using his eyes to see what things were or what they looked like as everybody had done before him, turned his attention to noting what took place on his own retina (as an oculist would test his own vision).

The most obvious things are often right there, but you don't think about them because you've narrowed your vision.

The statesman's duty is to bridge the gap between his nation's experience and his vision.

When I think of vision, I have in mind the ability to see above and beyond the majority.

I had a terrible vision: I saw an encyclopedia walk up to a polymath and open him up.

People that complete other people's vision are understated.