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Quotes About Insight

We #fear our intuitions because we fear the transformational power within our revelations.
~ Caroline Myss
Knowledge is the antidote to fear,- Knowledge, Use and Reason, with its higher aids.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.
~ Lactantius
Fear appears from a false vision of reality.
~ Bokar Rinpoche
We fear only what we haven't understood.
~ Byron Katie
Truth is a torch but a tremendous one. That is why we hurry past it, shielding our eyes, indeed, in fear of getting burned.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I have learned the novice can often see things that the expert overlooks. All that is necessary is not to be afraid of making mistakes, or of appearing naive.
~ Abraham Maslow
Either I did away with that fear through writing, or in the course of writing, I discovered it was no longer so intrusive or threating. The bottom line is, it's gone.
~ Ingmar Bergman
Fear is the proof of a degenerate mind.
~ Virgil
Fear is the start of wisdom.
~ Miguel de Unamuno
To see and know the worst is to take from Fear her main advantage.
~ Charlotte Bronte
I think that most writers who wait until they're inspired to write are just waiting for the fear to subside.
~ Barry Mann
When one writes, there's the double horror of discovering not only what it is that one so fears but also the triviality of that fear.
~ Deborah Eisenberg
It is a true saying, that what you fear you find.
~ Jeanette Winterson
If you can keep your head when all about are losing theirs it's just possible you haven't grasped the situation.
~ Jean Kerr
A danger foreseen is half avoided.
~ Thomas Fuller
Fear is sharp-sighted and can see things under ground and much more in the skies.
~ Miguel de Cervantes
Listen to your fears, they are the doorway to your freedom.
~ Catherine Louise Birmingham
Take a step back. Clear your mind. Refresh your perspective.
~ Unknown
Emotions help keep us on the right track by making sure that we are led by more than the mental/ intellectual faculties of thought, perception, reason, memory.
~ Unknown
By de-personalizing, we can view a situation more objectively, and come up with better ways of solving the problem.
~ Unknown
LIFE can only be understood backward but, it must be lived FORWARD!
~ Unknown
Your good judgment comes from life experience, and life experience comes from your past bad judgments.
~ Unknown
You will never truly understand something until it actually happens to you.
~ Unknown