Quotes with insight

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  • Thomas Carlyle Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Arthur Erickson Only when inspired to go beyond consciousness by some extraordinary insight does beauty manifest unexpectedly.
    Arthur Erickson
    Canadian architect and urban (1924 - 2009)
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  • Anish Kapoor Re-investing in one's own little moments of insight is very important.
    Anish Kapoor
    British Indian sculptor (1954 - )
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  • Bertrand Russell 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.
    Last Philosophical Testament: 1943-68
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Malcolm Forbes The best vision is insight.
    Malcolm Forbes
    American businessman and publisher (Forbes Magazine) (1919 - 1990)
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  • Carter G. Woodson The educational system of a country is worthless unless it [revolutionizes the social order]. Men of scholarship, and prophetic insight, must show us the right way and lead us into light which is shining brighter and brighter.
    Carter G. Woodson
    American historian, author and journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Carl Sagan The illegality of cannabis is outrageous, an impediment to full utilization of a drug which helps produce the serenity and insight, sensitivity and fellowship so desperately needed in this increasingly mad and dangerous world.
    Essay as Mr. X (1969)
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Carl Sagan The library connects us with the insight and knowledge, painfully extracted from Nature, of the greatest minds that ever were, with the best teachers, drawn from the entire planet and from all our history, to instruct us without tiring, and to inspire us to make our own contribution to the collective knowledge of the human species. I think the health of our civilization, the depth of our awareness about the underpinnings of our culture and our concern for the future can all be tested by how well
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Harold Rosenberg 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
    American art criticus, writer (1906 - 1978)
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  • Josiah Gilbert Holland The secret of man's success resides in his insight into the mood's of people, and his tact in dealing with them.
    Josiah Gilbert Holland
    American Author (1819 - 1881)
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  • Herodotus The worst part a man can suffer is to have insight into much and power over nothing.
    Herodotus
    Greek historian (484 - 425)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Their is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Arnold Bennett To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and where previously the brain held a dead fact, the soul grasps a living truth! At moments we are all artists.
    Arnold Bennett
    British novelist (1867 - 1931)
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  • Bette Davis Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.
    Bette Davis
    American Actress, Producer (1908 - 1989)
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  • Denis Diderot The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action.
    Denis Diderot
    French philosopher (1713 - 1784)
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