Quotes About Insight

Questions don't change the truth. But they give it motion.

[Paradox is] truth standing on its head to gain attention.

And what he ought to see, hear and understand is truth-eternal truth-and then practice it. That is conversion

We shall some day catch an abstract truth by the tail, and then we shall have our religion and our immortality.

Let us not underrate the value of a fact; it will one day flower into a truth.

A fact may blossom into a truth.

A true account of the actual is the rarest poetry, for common sense always takes a hasty and superficial view.

All expression of truth does at length take this deep ethical form.

Truth is like the sun, its value wholly depends upon our being at a correct distance away from it.

Urge him with truth to frame his fair replies And sure he will for Wisdom never lies.

Spurn not at seeming error, but dig below its surface for the truth; And beware of seeming truths that grow on the roots of error.

Fiction is most powerful when it contains most truth; and there is little truth we get so true as that which we find in fiction.

The essence of a novelist is to invent things and speak the truth, at the same time.

We listened to them, but it was clear they'd received too much therapy to know the truth.

FEAR IS A REACTION YOU HAVE WHEN YOU'RE GETTING CLOSER TO THE TRUTH

Sometimes you've got to shout the truth and wake people up.

Error is to truth as sleep is to waking. I have observed that one turns, as if refreshed, from error back to truth.

Wisdom is only found in truth.

If it is the greatest truth that you seek, the plants can direct you.

I think poets tell better history than historians. Historians lie all the time but the poets can get to truth of it.

Truth defies simplicity.

Stupid truth, always resisting simplicity

The artist needs to understand the truth that lies at the bottom of an enigma.

I think fiction is a very serious thing, that while it is fiction, it is also a revelation of truth, or facts.