Quotes about Insight
They are coming to rely too much on research, and they use it as a drunkard uses a lamp post, for support rather than for illumination.
— David Ogilvy
Understanding is the reward of faith. Therefore, seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.
— St. Augustine
Humility is the beginning of true intelligence.
— John Calvin
People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.
— Helen Keller
The highest type of intelligence, says Aristotle, manifests itself in an ability to see connections where no one has seen them before, that is, to think analogically.
— JM Coetzee
My darkness has been filled with the light of intelligence, and behold, the outer day-lit world was stumbling and groping in social blindness.
— Helen Keller
Small minds cannot grasp great subjects.
— St. Jerome
In short, Clevinger was one of those people with lots of intelligence and no brains, and everyone knew it except those who soon found it out.
— Joseph Heller
Intelligence is the capacity to perceive the essential, the what is; and to awaken this capacity, in oneself and in others, is education.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
It is not that I'm so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer.
— Albert Einstein
Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius.
— George Bernard Shaw
Intelligence must follow faith never precede it and never destroy it.
— Thomas a Kempis