Quotes About Insight

My thesis in terms of all my art is finding the beauty in the ugly truth. Just find the beauty in realism and what's there.

Sometimes when we have to speak suddenly we come closer to the truth than when we have time to think.

Truth resists simplicity.

It is easier to know the truth than to seek the truth.

To add to truth distracts from it.

There are certain times when most people are in a disposition of being informed, and 'tis incredible what a vast good a little truth might do, spoken in such seasons.

The golden guess is morning-star to the full round of truth.

All the art of analysis consists in saying a truth only when the other person is ready for it, has been prepared for it by an organic process of gradation and evolution.

A lost coin is found by means of a candle; the deepest truth is found by means of a simple story.

There's many a true word spoken in jest; scientists are abominably solemn; therefore scientists miss many a true word.

The truth doesn't only excist of what you see.

As I keep saying, fiction is truth. I think fiction is the truest thing there ever was.

Truth, when witty, is the wittiest of all things.

The reason we constantly discover new truth in Shakespeare is that his complete understanding of the particular includes the universal.

The only thing in the world we really possess is our knowledge of the truth.

There is a big part of me that has a writer's sensibility. And so that's how I think. That's how I pursue truth. That's how I hope to communicate truth to people.

Error can point the way to truth, while empty-headedness can only lead to more empty-headedness or to a career in politics.

Truth cannot be taught but it is quickly recognised by the person ready to discover it.

It might sound glib, but in a sense, as an actor Im a journalist and a psychologist recording life and truth.

Laughter is sort of a natural truth detector. If you laugh at something, it's probably because there was some truth in it.

The truth about nature we discover with our brains. The truth about religion we discover with our hearts.

I was smart, to tell you the truth. I'm not really bright, but I'm not stupid.

I hate talking about music, to tell you the truth.

People only see as far as they are able and the rest of the truth is lost on them.