Quotes About Insight

It's always easier to be a critic than a creator.

The calmer thought is not always the right thought, just as the distant view is not always the truest view

The hand of one person may express more than the face of another.

Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.

There is something truer and more real, than what we can see with the eyes, and touch with the finger.

Melville's example demonstrates the wisdom of waiting to read the classics. Coming to a great book on your own after having accumulated essential life experience can make all the difference.

Is it possible to know the truth without challenging it first?

You may be an idiot but I don't think you're a fool.

Tohru(thinking): There is an umeboshi-- on your back. Tohru (outloud): Maybe the reason people get jealous of eachother is because they can clearly see the umeboshi on other people's backs. I can see them too. I can see them perfectly. There is an amazing umeboshi on your back, Kyo-kun.

A sixth sense cannot make up for a total lack of common sense.

I always have to lose my way first before finding my answer. But then, everyone does.

There is a proverb that says, 'Talk so that I may know who you are.' But I say, 'Show me your eyes and I will know who you are.

A new world was opening up in front of my eyes, a world which for me had not existed before. Maybe it had always been there, always existed, but I had never seen it, never realized it had been there all the time. How was it that I had been blind to its existence all these years?

In some precious and personal moments there are brief, sudden surges of recognition of an immortal insight, a doctrinal deja vu. These flashes from the mirror of memory can remind us and inspire us, especially in the midst of life's taxing telestial traffic jams, which can otherwise cause us to grow weary and faint in our minds.

Letting off steam always produces more heat than light.

When superior minds start stating the obvious," said Amistad, "I tend to start questioning the appellation 'superior'.

The difference between stupid and intelligent people – and this is true whether or not they are well-educated – is that intelligent people can handle subtlety.

To condense fact from the vapor of nuance.

Well, all information looks like noise until you break the code.

There are those who say that seeing is believing. I am telling you that believing is seeing.

Humor is the ability to see three sides to one coin.

Some of the most profound truths about us are things that we stop saying in the middle.

Each book holds an experience and an adventure." [ Letters of Note ; Troy (MI, USA) Public Library, 1971]

We would do much better as leaders in the Church to learn at the feet of the farmer rather than study with the CEO of a corporation.