Quotes About Insight

Opportunities are never lost, just found by those who clearly see the power of trends and timing.

I definitely believe in the power of education. I believe the more people know, the more they are able to do what they can.

Laughter is a sense of proportion and a power of seeing yourself from the outside.

In order to make a choice, you need the power to see there is one.

The imagination is the power that enables us to perceive the normal in the abnormal, the opposite of chaos in chaos.

He robs present ills of their power who has perceived their coming beforehand.

Genius is only a superior power of seeing.

Photography has the power to undo your assumptions about the world.

I've always shied away from conventional wisdom, though I know the power of it.

One must know and recognize not merely the direct but the secret power of the word.

We must see with our own eyes and not accept any laid-down tradition as if it had some magical power in it.

The greatest advantage of books does not always come from what we remember of them, but from their suggestiveness, their character-building power.

Inanimate objects sometimes appear endowed with a strange power of sight. A statue notices, a tower watches, the face of an edifice contemplates.

Power rests on the kind of knowledge one holds. What is the sense of knowing things that are useless?

When he has the power to see things detached from self-interest and from the insistent claims of the lust of the senses, then alone can he have the true vision of the beauty that is everywhere.

Maybe the gift of any great person is the power to converse with our own hearts.

If you don't know how to look, you'll end up putting down the wrong things, which only dilutes or cancels the power of your artwork.

The great artist is conscious of the talent and power he possesses otherwise he would not see his faults and so would not be able to improve.

If you don't abdicate or misuse your power, pressure takes you into realization.

Most people who travel look only at what they are directed to look at. Great is the power of the guidebook maker, however ignorant.

Wisdom is considered a sign of weakness by the powerful because a wise man can lead without power but only a powerful man can lead without wisdom.

... Their power to see environments as they really are.

It's only by starting in a place of peace that we find our purpose and power.

To capture the human cost of fallen empire with all its horror and absurdity, Sheets offers the right combination: the political insight of a top reporter and the power of a novelist.