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Quotes About Insight

Experience is the oracle of truth; and where its responses are unequivocal, they ought to be conclusive and sacred.
~ Alexander Hamilton
A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.
~ Alexis Carrel
Marvelous Truth, confront us at every turn, in every guise.
~ Denise Levertov
Anyone who is not working toward the truth is missing the whole point of living.
~ Gautama Buddha
Facts are many, but the truth is one.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful.
~ Victor Hugo
Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
The truth always turns out to be simpler than you thought.
~ Richard P. Feynman
In the process of telling the truth about what you feel or what you see, each of us has to get in touch with himself or herself in a really deep, serious way.
~ June Jordan
Find someone who is willing to share the truth with you.
~ Jim Rohn
You can't force someone to see the truth, just like you can't force a blind man to see.
~ Marilyn Manson
Unfortunately, many regard the critic as an enemy, instead of seeing him as a guide to the truth.
~ Wilhelm Steinitz
The truth for sure, when it arrives, will make you smile. If it doesn't, you should seek a deeper truth.
~ Terence McKenna
To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle.
~ George Orwell
Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end.
~ Sid Caesar
Turn your head away from the screen, my friend. It will tell you nothing more.
~ Jeff Buckley
The search for truth is more precious than its possession.
~ Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
I have noticed that if you look carefully at people's eyes the first five seconds they look at you, the truth of their feelings will shine through for just an instant before it flickers away.
~ Sue Monk Kidd
The most important thing about music that I've learned after all this time is that to me, it's a way of reaching the truth.
~ Serj Tankian
It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
~ Virginia Woolf
Truth is more in the process than in the result.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
Vagueness is at times an indication of nearness to a perfect truth.
~ Charles Ives
Followers who tell the truth, and leaders who listen to it, are an unbeatable combination.
~ Warren G. Bennis