Quotes About Insight

One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.

Because ultimately only the witness -- and not the actors -- knows the truth (Vyasa to Draupadi)

Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover seeds of truth.

When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.

We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it.

An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

The truth dazzles gradually, or else the world would be blind.

The most familiar precepts are not always the truest.

The moment of truth, the sudden emergence of a new insight, is an act of intuition.

Autopsies give us the facts but not the truth.

Poetry is a presentiment of the truth.

Silence and solitude are confrontational. They plunge us instantly into the truth.

All profound truths startle you in the first announcement.

First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.

Fairy tales lie just as much as statistics do, but sometimes you can find a grain of truth in them.

Seeing and admitting the truth about ourselves, about our role in creating our own problems, and about how we relate to others is vital for healing.

Truth has to fall on fertile soil.

Knowledge can only be limited. Ignorance is boundless. In recognizing our ignorance, we will touch that which is boundless.

There's nothing you can know that isn't known.

I just think that I'm a person who's trying to find the truth and express it as I, you know, get the opportunity.

Life does not hurt nearly as much if we have learned to listen to ourselves and to recognize how fully and richly we are trying to tell ourselves the truth.

Truth strikes us from behind and in the dark, as well as from before and in broad daylight.

Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through.