Quotes About Insight

For me, the greater purpose of the story is just to illuminate some pattern of human truth.

Pain is the doorway to wisdom and to truth.

Woman's inaptitude for reasoning has not prevented her from arriving at truth; nor has man's ability to reason prevented him from floundering in absurdity.

Why does man not see things? He is himself standing in the way: he conceals things.

What is important is not what you hear said, it's what you observe.

We do not find truth groveling through error.

Fiction is the lie that helps us understand the truth.

I make no manner of doubt that you threw a very diamond of truth at me, though you see it hit me so directly in the face that it wasn't exactly appreciated, at first.

By doubting we are led to enquire, and by enquiry we perceive the truth.

First the truth is ridiculed. Then it meets outrage. Then it is said to have been obvious all along.

All paths do not lead to truth. There is no path to truth, it must come to you.

True, the initial ideas are in general those of an individual, but the establishment of the reality and truth is in general the work of more than one person.

They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.

You can always trust information given you by people who are crazy; they have an access to truth not available through regular channels.

...visual truth lies in the structure of light.

To see what isn't true is easy. But to see what is true will take some doing.

I could tell you the truth about me... but to seduce you, I will tell you the truth about you.

The Truth is realized in an instant; the Act is practiced step by step.

Nature's book always contains the truth; we must only learn to read it.

Within infinite myths lies the Eternal Truth Who sees it all? Varuna has but a thousand eyes Indra, a hundred And I, only two

Approach each new problem not with a view of finding what you hope will be there, but to get the truth.

True religion is the realization of truth.

Poetry lies its way to the truth.

Reality is what trips you up when you walk around with your eyes closed.