Quotes About Insight

Understanding makes the mind lazy.

The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers. M. Scott Peck

You trust you'll know what you need to know just when you need to know it.

No matter the origin, it's you who notices an idea and gives it weight; the perception is always happening in you.

To know a thing, dip yourself in it like pen and ink, let it write you in its own words. Elizabeth Ayres

When I started on this I had forty-forty vision.

I can understand that,' Jim said. And Tommy

Contemporary criticism only represents the amount of ignorance genius has to contend with.

A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own.

In fact, the truth cannot be communicated until it is perceived.

a single word even may be a spark of inextinguishable thought

The wise want love; and those who love want wisdom

Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.

Reviewers, with some rare exceptions, are a most stupid and malignant race.

One after another the greatest writers, poets, and artists confirm the fact that their work comes to them from beyond the threshold of consciousness.

The more we study, the more we discover our ignorance

Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted

Time is the wisest counselor.

Time is the wisest counselor of all.

Time is the wisest counsellor of all.

Statistics mean nothing to the individual.

The revelation can change your situation.

True prayer intercessors have double vision. They see in the natural and they see in the spirit.

One pound of learning requires ten pounds of common sense to apply it.