Quotes About Insight

Good questions are to be appreciated, not answered.

Questions create the only light that can permeate a formidable truth.

There are plenty of theories to listen to and follow but truth yearns to be discovered. When you find it, there is no doubt where to go.

TO be practical not merely means to steal when everybody steals but to act with wits and wisdom...

Behavior slays the dragon of illusion and reveals the truth.

What you know is what you share

Truth always lags last limping along on the arm of Time.

One truth discovered one pang of regret at not being able to express it is better than all the fluency and flippancy in the world.

Truth is something you stumble into when you think you're going some place else.

Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

Jon Stewart, Bill Maher, Stephen Colbert. Those are the guys I look at who are telling me pretty much the truth. And they throw humor into it which makes it much more interesting to listen to.

Sure, I am funny and have a good sense of humor. Mostly, though, I just tell the truth. The internal dialogue people have in their heads - I just write it.

Read nature nature is a friend to truth.

We must never forget that higher knowledge has to do with revering truth and insight and not with revering people.

In order to properly understand the big picture, everyone should fear becoming mentally clouded and obsessed with one small section of truth.

Nothing energizes me more than to burrow myself under a pile of received wisdom and emerge triumphant with the truth.

History gives you insight of the same quality of truth as poetry or philosophy or a novel.

The first function of poetry is to tell the truth, to learn how to do that, to find out what you really feel and what you really think.

Being the soothsayer of the tribe is a dirty job, but someone has to do it.

Some of you may not like what I had to say, but these are the things that I've noticed and believe should be said.

Once you face the truth, the knowledge both empowers you and sets you free.

Ugly truths are the biggest source of indigestion in humans.

Question like a child, reason like an adult, and write like a sage.