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Quotes About Insight

You need, as a historian, essential triangulation from your subject and the only way you get that triangulation is through time.
~ Ken Burns
Well, the first quality of being a good leader is you have to be able to follow. See, a good leader cant just be the leader all the time, I have to be able to follow.
~ Lisa Leslie
I believe that anyone who flies in an airplane and doesn't spend most of his time looking out the window wastes his money.
~ Marc Reisner
You just never know when it might be cookie time. And, that is what the dogs have taught me.
~ Merrill Markoe
Knowledge for its own sake was meaningless, its mere accumulation a waste of time. Knowledge must lead to understanding.
~ Moses Finley
It's obvious what's timeless and what is not timeless, but you need time to find that answer.
~ Patricia Field
Time and reflection... modify, little by little, our vision, and at last comprehension comes to us.
~ Paul Cezanne
Having the savvy to know what you want to say, how you want to say it, and what music you want to say it over comes with time spent and wisdom gained in a music career.
~ Pharoahe Monch
No one is wise at all times.
~ Pliny the Elder
There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher.
~ Oliver Goldsmith
The time I've spent in professional Premiership club rugby has been invaluable.
~ Rob Andrew
The real truth is splintered and spread throughout time.
~ Terence McKenna
If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.
~ Vincent Van Gogh
You don't always have to run. Take good time to watch first, then decide.
~ Will Arnett
I delight not in spreading any thing mysterious, for I consider it all lost time; but the things that all of us can see and know if we will.
~ Elias Hicks
A time comes, after years in the trenches, when the artist begins to fathom what his career has looked like so far and what it will look like if he continues as he's proceeded.
~ Eric Maisel
To find everything profound - that is an inconvenient trait. It makes one strain one's eyes all the time, and in the end one finds more than one might have wished.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Sometimes we are inclined to class those who are once-and-a-half witted with the half-witted, because we appreciate only a third part of their wit.
~ Henry David Thoreau
A man is wise with the wisdom of his time only, and ignorant with its ignorance.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Sometimes we may learn more from a man's errors, than from his virtues.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Maybe I spent more time dwelling on emotions than some people, and maybe that's why I ended up writing.
~ Iris Dement
I understand a lot of the female needs. I'm not saying I know all of them all the time though.
~ Jared Leto
Maintain a firm grasp of the obvious at all times.
~ Jeff Bezos