Quotes about Insight
We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
— Winston Churchill
The method of political science is the interpretation of life its instrument is insight, a nice understanding of subtle, unformulated conditions.
— Woodrow Wilson
The trouble with market research is that people don't think what they feel, they don't say what they think and they don't do what they say.
— David Ogilvy
I used to start my questionnaires by asking, 'Which would you rather hear on the radio tonight — Jack Benny or a Shakespeare play?' If the respondent said Shakespeare, I knew he was a liar and broke off the interview.
— David Ogilvy
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