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Quotes About Insight

There is nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head.
~ Thornton Wilder
Love opens the eyes of our understanding and enables us to see more of the truth than can those who are blinded by self-love. Those who love most, see most.
~ Hannah Hurnard
Let us accept truth, even when it surprises us and alters our views.
~ George Sand
No human being is constituted to know the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth; and even the best of men must be content with fragments, with partial glimpses, never the full fruition.
~ William Osler
The best laughs are on the recognition of truth.
~ Keith Johnstone
He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
~ Thomas Jefferson
The higher the truth, the simpler it is.
~ Abraham Isaac Kook
It is the brain, the little gray cells on which one must rely. One must seek the truth within--not without." ~ Poirot
~ Agatha Christie
A deep truth is a truth so deep that not only is it true but it's exact opposite is also true.
~ Niels Bohr
To search for truth about self is as valuable as to search for truth in other areas of life.
~ Karen Horney
You must accept the truth from whatever source it comes.
~ Maimonides
I think it will be found that experience, the true source and foundation of all knowledge, invariably confirms its truth.
~ Thomas Malthus
The mind has to be empty to see clearly.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
The truth is, most of us discover where we are headed when we arrive.
~ Bill Watterson
We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
~ George Orwell
Every day that you attempt to see things as they are in truth Is a supremely successful day.
~ Vernon Howard
If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
You are always your own best guru, your own best teacher, the answers are always inside you.
~ Sathya Sai Baba
The excellence of aphorisms consists not so much in the expression of some rare or abstruse sentiment, as in the comprehension of some useful truth in a few words.
~ Samuel Johnson
When one looks at the ocean, they can only see that part of it which comes within their range of vision; so it is with the truth.
~ Hazrat Inayat Khan
Beauty in mathematics is seeing the truth without effort.
~ George Polya
Education is not just about going to school and getting a degree. It's about widening your knowledge and absorbing the truth about life.
~ Shakuntala Devi
We must always be disturbed by the truth.
~ Dogen
With a keen eye for details, one truth prevails!
~ Gosho Aoyama