Quotes About Insight

True intelligence requires fabulous imagination.

We do not posses imagination enough to sense what we are missing.

Every view, and every object I studied attentively, by viewing them again and again on every side, for I was anxious to make a lasting impression of it on my imagination.

Narrowness of experience leads to narrowness of imagination

All that you can imagine you already know.

Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?

A great many things which in times of lesser knowledge we imagined to be superstitious or useless, prove today on examination to have been of immense value to mankind.

A hallucination is a species of reality, as capable of teaching you as a videotape about Kilimanjaro or anything else that falls through your life.

I think that the most necessary quality for any person to have is imagination. It makes people able to put themselves in other people's places. It makes them kind and sympathetic and understanding.

Anybody can have common sense, provided that they have no imagination.

When it comes to understanding others, we rarely tax our imaginations.

Imagination is a sort of faint perception.

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

I think the greatest imagination we can exercise is one that imagines how someone else feels. Because you know how you feel, but so often we attribute our own feelings on to someone else.

Imagination is vital to precautionary judgement.

The disclosure of a new fact, the leap forward, the conquest over yesterday's ignorance, is an act not of reason but of imagination, of intuition.

Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.

Imagination is a poor substitute for experience.

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

The source of genius is imagination alone, the refinement of the senses that sees what others do not see, or sees them differently.

To see things as they really were--what an empoverishment!

The problem is not one of prediction. It is one of imagination.

Imagination in business is the ability to perceive opportunity.

Direct experience is the evasion, or hiding place of those devoid of imagination.