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A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.
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A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding.
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Ages when custom is unsettled are necessarily ages of prophecy. The moralist cannot teach what is revealed; he must reveal what can be taught. He has to seek insight rather than to preach.
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Art, rightly applied, provided humanity with the symbols, insight, and vicarious experience necessary to help one person place him- or herself in the shoes of another, and by so doing come to appreciate the commonality of human experience.
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As the unity of the modern world becomes increasingly a technological rather than a social affair, the techniques of the arts provide the most valuable means of insight into the real direction of our own collective purposes.
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Give me insight into today and you may have the antique and future worlds.
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God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.
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Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
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Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.
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I am grateful for - though I can't keep up with - the flood of articles, theses, and textbooks that mean to share insight concerning the nature of poetry.
Set in motion: essays, interviews, and dialogues (1996 edition), Univ of Michigan Pr -
I do not hesitate to read all good books in translations. What is really best in any book is translatable - any real insight or broad human sentiment.
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I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children.
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I think over time you learn to know a bit more about yourself - you develop a certain amount of self-insight and self-awareness, and you know what you can absorb, and what you cannot; what gets to you and what doesn't.
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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.
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If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it's because they lead to the knowledge that you own your own body (and with it your own voice), and that's the most revolutionary insight of all.
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Insight into the two selves within a man clears up many confusions and contradictions. It was our understanding that preceded our victory.
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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.
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Light half-believers of our casual creeds, who never deeply felt, nor clearly will d, whose insight never has borne fruit in deeds, whose vague resolves never have been fulfilled.
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Mark Twain gave us an insight into the life on the Mississippi at the turn of the century.
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New insight begins when satisfaction comes to an end, when all that has been seen, said, or done looks like a distortion. Man's true fulfillment depends on communion with that which transcends him.
Who Is Man? (1965)
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