Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle

Now it is evident that a little insight into the customs of every people is necessary to insure a kindly communication; this, joined with patience and kindness, will seldom fail with the natives of the interior.
Charles Sturt

One of the many interesting and surprising experiences of the beginner in child analysis is to find in even very young children a capacity for insight which is often far greater than that of adults.
Melanie Klein

Only when inspired to go beyond consciousness by some extraordinary insight does beauty manifest unexpectedly.
Arthur Erickson

Primates will continue to play social games without the least insight into what is killing them.
Keith Henson

Re-investing in one's own little moments of insight is very important.
Anish Kapoor

Real genius of moral insight is a motor which will start any engine.
Edmund Wilson

Religions that teach brotherly love have been used as an excuse for persecution, and our profoundest scientific insight is made into a means of mass destruction.
Bertrand Russell

Speed is often confused with insight. When I start running earlier than the others, I appear faster.
Johan Cruijff

The best vision is insight.
Malcolm Forbes

The best way in the world to deceive believers is to cloak a message in religious language and declare that it conveys some new insight from God.
Charles Stanley

The experiment of the poem is mostly intuitive. I write the first draft, pulling in the various elements that interest me, in the hope that their being combined will lead to some kind of insight.
John Barton

The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action.
Denis Diderot

The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The method of political science is the interpretation of life; its instrument is insight, a nice understanding of subtle, unformulated conditions.
Woodrow Wilson

The purpose of education is to keep a culture from being drowned in senseless repetitions, each of which claims to offer a new insight.
Harold Rosenberg

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.
Edward Steichen

The worst pain a man can suffer: to have insight into much and power over nothing.
Herodotus

There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

To have faith is to believe in truth, believe that truth confers special power on those lucky enough to get a little insight, and to know in our hearts that all these things come from God, which is why we should never get too cocky about our successes.
Tony Snow