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Quotes About Insight

Sometimes the truth is stupid.
~ Roger Williams
If error is corrected whenever it is recognized as such, the path of error is the path of truth.
~ Hans Reichenbach
An aphorism is a personal observation inflated into a universal truth, a private posing as a general.
~ Stefan Kanfer
Listen to what people say when they are mad, that's when the truth comes out.
~ Ziad K. Abdelnour
Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.
~ Denis Diderot
Give me a fruitful error any time, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections. You can keep your sterile truth for yourself.
~ Vilfredo Pareto
It changes your life, the pursuit of truth.
~ Ben Bradlee
The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of... We know the truth not only by the reason, but by the heart." - Blaise Pascal
~ Blaise Pascal
We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.
~ William Butler Yeats
Not knowing how near the truth is, we seek it far away.
~ Hakuin Ekaku
Anger so clouds the mind that it cannot perceive the truth.
~ Cato the Elder
There are many ways to the recognition of truth, and Burgundy is one of them.
~ Isak Dinesen
I think that what you've got to do is discover the essential truth of the situation, and have a point of view about it.
~ Burt Glinn
If others would but reflect on mathematical truths as deeply and as continuously as I have, they would make my discoveries.
~ Carl Friedrich Gauss
Truth is a torch which gleams in the fog but does not dispel it.
~ Claude Adrien Helvetius
Once a profound truth has been seen, it cannot be 'unseen'. There's no 'going back' to the person you were. Even if such a possibility did exist... why would you want to?
~ Dave Sim
Truth is the daughter of time.
~ Aulus Gellius
All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.
~ Ernest Hemingway
An opinion should be the result of thought, not a substitute for it.
~ Jef Mallett
There are times when we must sink to the bottom of our misery to understand truth, just as we must descend to the bottom of a well to see the stars in broad daylight.
~ Vaclav Havel
Truth does not really hurt, rather it is our resistance to its message that causes us pain.
~ Vernon Howard
The truth can set us free, but only if we're always in the process of discovering it.
~ Irwin Kula
Our idea of God tells us more about ourselves than about Him.
~ Thomas Merton
They who imagine truth in untruth and see untruth in truth will never arrive at the truth.
~ Gautama Buddha