Quotes About Insight

When the filter is weakened by a powerful drug, what we see is not delusion but the truth.

In jest, there is truth.

To pore upon a book, to seek the light of truth.

I want to discover a truth for myself that is really true. Whether it's a piece of scientific knowledge, or a philosophical truth.

Imagination, which in truth Is but another name for absolute power And clearest insight, amplitude of mind, And reason, in her most exalted mood.

Artists invent things as a way of telling the truth.

Klar sieht, wer von ferne sieht, nebelhaft, wer Anteil nimmt.

Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation. I keep the subject constantly before me and wait 'til the first dawnings open slowly, by little and little, into a full and clear light.

Ultimately, education in its real sense is the pursuit of truth. It is an endless journey through knowledge and enlightenment.

Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Keep your head down, Edward. Those that see too much quickly find themselves seeing nothing at all.

A true spiritual teacher will never guide you through the door, only to the door.

The truth hurts, my man, but it's a good pain.

There is no better adviser than a good book.

There is a world of difference between being clever and being right.

Never let your perspective change the truth. The truth should always change your perspective.

Altering your perspective can provide you the luxury of seeing things for what they are, not what you wish them to be.

Maybe it's just that some of us have had certain facts and truths slapped up against our heads so hard and so often that we have to see them and pay our respects to their reality.

Intelligence is worthless without common sense.

Cliche is Truth's most loyal friend...

Awareness about lack of knowledge is the most useful knowledge.

Some simple truths are so clear to a dazzling degree that to realize them you need to think over and live for a long time

...what makes a writer a prophet is his ability to speak truth...