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Quotes About Insight

He didn't know what books meant to her, that books were symbols of truth and meaning.
~ Cassandra Clare
I like to tell myself that truth is in the irregularity and the unexpected, and I try to look for both.
~ Catherine Taylor
The truth is so simple that it is regarded as a pretentious banality.
~ Dag Hammarskjold
God calls me to write the truth of my life transparently so that others can learn from my hurt and heartache without taking the field trip themselves.
~ Dannah Gresh
Empathy took the edge off, and the truth is, we need our edge. Our edge is trying to speak to us, and we are too, too good at shutting it up.
~ Deb Caletti
One thing my teacher taught me about getting psychic information with my intuition was to say, "Just show me the truth of this situation, God." That helps us to be able to read it more clearly.
~ Echo Bodine
I'd like to discover Truth - when I can latch on to something that I think is true.
~ Edgar Mitchell
I believe that there is a kind of poetry, even a kind of truth, in simple fact.
~ Edward Abbey
You draw closer to truth by shutting yourself off from mankind.
~ Elias Canetti
When you invent something, you're drawing on reservoirs of knowledge that you already have. It's only when you're faithful to the truth that something can come to you from the outside.
~ Elif Batuman
dreams are shadows cast by truth shining on our darkest secrets
~ Elizabeth Chandler
I love the pleasure of finding the same truth in two different places. It has a lot to do with a soul.
~ Eyvind Kang
The most appealing part is the feeling of learning something true - the pleasure of a truth. For me, that's mostly found in philosophical literature at the moment.
~ Eyvind Kang
If we knew the truth, we'd see it; all else is system and outskirts.
~ Fernando Pessoa
The judgments our enemies make about us come nearer to the truth than those we make about ourselves.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
We should not be upset that others hide the truth from us, when we hide it so often from ourselves.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Our enemies' opinion of us comes closer to the truth than our own.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Knowledge comes from personal experience of truth and awareness, not from conversation.
~ Frederick Lenz
Of course I shall go astray often...for who does not make mistakes? But I cannot go far wrong for I have seen the truth.
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
Jealousy knows more than truth does.
~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez
You know what ART stands for? Above Real Truth.
~ Gary Busey
When you find something funny search it for hidden truth.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Follow not truth too near the heels, lest it dash out thy teeth.
~ George Herbert
But O the truth, the truth. The many eyes That look on it The diverse things they see.
~ George Meredith