Quotes About Insight

The truth is simple. If it was complicated, everyone would understand it.

If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?

Whatever separates you from the Truth, throw it away, it will vanish anyhow.

A picture can express a universal humanism, or simply reveal a delicate and poignant truth by exposing a slice of life that might otherwise pass unnoticed.

Reality is nourishment, but people don't believe it, I guess it's hard to stomach the truth like a bulimic.

Later, I began to succeed in decisive games. Perhaps because I realized a very simple truth: not only was I worried, but also my opponent

To arrive at the simplest truth requires years of contemplation.

Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.

When one realises one is asleep, at that moment one is already half-awake.

The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears its truth.

They tease me now, telling me it was only a dream. But does it matter whether it was a dream or reality, if the dream made known to me the truth?

Never assume the obvious is true.

The purpose of satire has been rightly stated as to strip off the veneer of comforting illusion and cosy half truth, and our job, as I see it, is to put it back again!

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

You can be standing right in front of the truth and not necessarily see it, and people only get it when they're ready to get it.

Everything to be imagined is an image of truth.

...nobody can stand truth if it is told to him. Truth can be tolerated only if you discover it yourself because then, the pride of discovery makes the truth palatable.

Truth never penetrates an unwilling mind.

[To] know oneself is, above all, to know what one lacks. It is to measure oneself against Truth, and not the other way around. The first product of self-knowledge is humility . . .

A truth does not become greater by repetition.

It is the business of the artist to uncover the strangeness of truth

The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

You know, people seldom go to the trouble of scratching the surface of things to find the inner truth.

Take a journey to the realm of the truth.