Quotes About Insight

Imagination is the wide-open eye which leads us always to see truth more vividly.

The analysts try in vain to conceal the fact that they do not deduce: they combine, they compose ... when they do arrive at the truth they stumble over it after groping their way along.

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth.

The great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

When you listen generously to people they can hear the truth in themselves, often for the first time.

Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.

Truth is born into this world only with pangs and tribulations, and every fresh truth is received unwillingly.

Truth is for the minority.

General abstract truth is the most precious of all blessings; without it, man is blind; it is the eye of reason.

I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.

We need truth to grow in the same way that we need vitamins, affection and love.

I study more of truth and enlightening. I had to go the next level to talk about life.

Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.

Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.

When we start to suffer, it tells us something very valuable. It means that we are not seeing the truth, and we are not relating from the truth. It's a beautiful pointer. It never fails.

It seems not to have been written. It is the quintessence of life. It is the basic truth.

Fiction is a bridge to the truth that journalism can't reach.

Truth is to be used as a scalpel, not a club.

If only she could put them together, she felt, write them out in some sentence, then she would have got at the truth of things.

I'd like to study the drawings of kids. That's where the truth is, without a doubt.

New truths become evident when new tools become available.

The feeling is often the deeper truth, the opinion the more superficial one.

The dreamer's untamed eye sees beyond the illusions to the heart of what is real.