Definition of Insight

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Insight

A sight or view of the interior of anything; a deep inspection or view; introspection; -- frequently used with into.

Power of acute observation and deduction; penetration; discernment; perception.

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Insight Quotations

There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.
Bette Davis

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.
Vincent Van Gogh

The method of political science is the interpretation of life; its instrument is insight, a nice understanding of subtle, unformulated conditions.
Woodrow Wilson

A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding.
Marshall McLuhan

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.
Marshall McLuhan

It is insight into human nature that is the key to the communicator's skill. For whereas the writer is concerned with what he puts into his writings, the communicator is concerned with what the reader gets out of it. He therefore becomes a student of how people read or listen.
William Bernbach

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.
Abraham Joshua Heschel

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.
Bertrand Russell

Insight Translations

insight in German is Einblick
insight in Norwegian is innsikt
insight in Spanish is perspicacia
insight in Swedish is inblick, insikt

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