Quotes About Insight

Not all meanings are meant to be clear at once. Some ideas take time. Some words are designed to lead us on inner journeys, with truth hidden deep inside them.

The only thing better than "hands-on" experience is hands-off experience - enough experience to understand that some things will turn out better if left alone.

When one is able to overcome the romantic and emotional attitude, one discovers truth even in the kitchen sink.

I've heard that the soul often recognizes truth when it hears it, even if the mind does not.

The truth is silent. The truth doesn't come with words. It's something that I just know; it's something that I can feel without words, and it's called silent knowledge.

The truth, however ugly in itself, is always curious and beautiful to seekers after it.

...in every man there is an eye of the soul, which...is more precious far than ten thousand bodily eyes, for by it alone is truth seen.

I had to grow up and learn to listen for the unspoken as well as the spoken-and to know a truth.

A great deal of time and intellectual force are lost in the world, because the false seems great and the truth so small and insignificant.

Every sentence has a truth waiting at the end of it and the writer learns how to know it when he finally gets there.

Directing the process by the mind can only lead to difficulty, for the mind does not know. Commitment to the Truth is sufficient for the process to unfold.

In conversation, points arise! If a human being converses much, it is impossible for him to avoid the truth! (Hercule Poirot)

We can get so wrapped up in our own misconceptions that we miss the simple beauty of the truth.

An open mind is not an end in itself but a means to the end of finding truth.

Jokes? There are no jokes. The truth is the funniest joke of all.

I do not think discursively. It is not so much that I arrive at truth as that I take my start from it.

New constellations of truth are daily discovered in the firmament of knowledge, and new stars are daily shining forth in each constellation.

A paradox is only a truth standing on its head to attract attention.

We are here for experience, and experience is a preparation to know the Truth when we meet it.

Does coaching work? Yes. Good coaches provide a truly important service. They tell you the truth when no one else will.

When a philosopher says something that is true then it is trivial. When he says something that is not trivial then it is false.

Democritus says, "But we know nothing really; for truth lies deep down".

we reach with our hands and brush away the clouds and pierce the sky to reach the moon and Mars but we still can't reach the truth

After much seeking for truth and knowledge the profoundness of reality came to me with a clarity never before known.