Quotes About Insight

The virtue of the imagination is its reaching, by intuition and intensity, a more essential truth than is seen at the surface of things.

It is possible, even probable, to be told a truth about a place, to accept it, to know it and at the same time not to know anything about it.

Truth emerges from the clash of adverse ideas.

To reason, to argue. It is to walk with crutches in search of the truth. We come to it with a leap.

The further you get from power, the closer you come to the truth.

Independent films are really one of the greatest resources these days to actually find unfiltered truth.

And he who does not know himself does not know others, so it may be said with equal truth, that he who does not know others knows himself but very imperfectly.

The great quest of life has always been to discover truth.

I love finding the vulnerability in characters. There's truth there. There's beauty in vulnerability.

I've been talking to people all over the country, city council members, grassroots leaders, party leaders, members in Congress - and you know what? The truth is I'll have something to say real soon.

For truth and the spirit will abide with the morrow.

Every vivid memory holds some essential truth about your vision of the world

Their imaginations were flywheels on the ramshackle machinery of the awful truth.

Though tightly the net of words forms, how surely truth slips out.

The wise does not think that only he is right -thus he knows the truth.

Truth sounds paradoxical!

we shall know that we have begun to speak true by an increased hunger for true-speaking; we shall have the whole hunger only after we have given ourselves the first taste of it.

Sometimes you can learn things from the way a person denies something. The choice of lies can be almost as helpful as the truth.

Behind one truth there is always yet another.

There is truth in all things, if you understand them well.

What is today accepted as truth will tomorrow prove to be only amusing.

The only time I see the truth is when I cross my eyes.

Truth implies meaning.

I love the truth. Whether it's painful or wonderful, it always widens my perspective and changes me. It helps move me forward.