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Quotes About Insight

Never let reality get in the way of truth
~ Pat Pattison
It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.
~ Carl Jung
The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth, and it goes away. Puzzling.
~ Robert M. Pirsig
In order to be effective truth must penetrate like an arrow - and that is likely to hurt.
~ Wei Wu Wei
Books are the windows of the truth, but they are not the door; they point out things and yet they do not impart them. It is within that we should write, think, and speak, not merely on paper.
~ Louis Claude de Saint-Martin
The truth is funny. Honest discovery, observation, and reaction is better than contrived invention.
~ Del Close
A gift of truth is the gift of love.
~ David Icke
Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
See now the power of truth.
~ Galileo Galilei
The truth has a strange way of following you, of coming up to you and making you listen to what it has to say.
~ Sandra Cisneros
When truth presents itself, the wise person see the light, takes it in, and makes adjustments. The fool tries to adjust the truth so he does not have to adjust to it.
~ Henry Cloud
The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.
~ William Faulkner
There is only one way to gain access to the truth and that is to not expect anything.
~ Robert De Niro
The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.
~ Willa Cather
The truth can be glimpsed only through the eyes of death.
~ Dan Brown
A lot of truth is said in jest.
~ Eminem
Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.'
~ Khalil Gibran
Truth has many dimensions, and the way you arrive at truth in complex situations is through many perspectives.
~ Eric Kandel
It is precisely for the reason that Truth is utterly simple, basic, elementary and totally obvious, that it is completely overlooked.
~ Ramesh S Balsekar
Art is not truth; art is the lie which makes us see the truth.
~ Pablo Picasso
Blind eyes could look at me and see the truth.
~ Lil Wayne
Every fight is one between different angles of vision illuminating the same truth.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
The idea came like a flash of lightning and in an instant the truth was revealed.
~ Nikola Tesla