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Definition of Insight

Insight

  1. A sight or view of the interior of anything; a deep inspection or view; introspection; -- frequently used with into.
  2. Power of acute observation and deduction; penetration; discernment; perception.

Insight Quotations

Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention.
Deepak Chopra

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

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

It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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
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Insight Translations

insight in German is Einblick
insight in Norwegian is innsikt
insight in Spanish is perspicacia
insight in Swedish is inblick, insikt

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