Insight

Examples

• In connection with the adoption of this lubricating system there occurred another instance of his knowledge of materials and intuitive insight into the nature of things. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• She had a singular insight into life, considering that she had never mixed with it. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• This insight we owe to Bergson. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The ordinary politician has no real control, no direction, no insight into the power he rides. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• You must penetrate the ponderous vocabulary, the professional cant to the insight beneath or you scoff at the mountain ranges of words and phrases. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Intelligent insight into present forms of associated life is necessary for a character whose morality is more than colorless innocence. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The trick here is to argue from the opponent's language, never from his insight. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Historical knowledge helps provide such insight. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• And the insight is enormously fertile. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• He has described what political science must be like, and anyone who has absorbed his insight has an intellectual groundwork for political observation. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• No insight into the evident fact that power upsets all mechanical foresight and gravitates toward the natural leaders seems to have illuminated those historic deliberations. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• It is, therefore, of the highest importance to gain a clear insight into the means of modification and coadaptation. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• My own mental insight informs me that three inevitable questions will be asked here by persons of inquiring minds. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Certainly every time he came in contact with the industries--silk, wine, beer, wool--his scientific insight, Ant?us-like, seemed to revive. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• It is impossible to leave this point without quoting Nietzsche, who had this insight and stated it most provocatively. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• So debating becomes a way of confirming your own prejudices; it is never, never in any debate I have suffered through, a search for understanding from the angles of two differing insights. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Our political thinking needs the infusion of contemporary insights. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• His insights are those of the gifted evangelist, often profound and always narrow. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.

Edited by Aaron