Quotes about Insight
I hope my books make statements about our general condition.
— William Golding
A genius is one who shoots at something no one else can see-and hits it.
— Anonymous
Literary experience heals the wound, without undermining the privilege, of individuality.
— CS Lewis
The most useful truths are always universal, and unconnected with accidents and customs.
— Samuel Johnson
Ultimate seriousness in not without a dose of humor.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Martin Luther King was a human being with a brilliant mind, a powerful heart, and insight, and courage and also with a sense of humor. So he was accessible.
— Maya Angelou
If you want to feel good, be rational.
— Ayn Rand
Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog: Nobody really enjoys it, and the frog generally dies as a result.
— Mark Twain
A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.
— William Faulkner
The opportunities in this world are as great as we have the imagination to see them... but we never get that view from the bottom of the nest.
— Charles Kettering
Anybody can have common sense, provided that they have no imagination.
— Oscar Wilde
The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
— Samuel Johnson