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Quotes About Insight

Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.
~ Louisa May Alcott
The truth is not distorted here, but rather a distortion is used to get at truth.
~ Flannery O'Connor
The best way to show people true things is from a direction that they had not imagined the truth coming.
~ Neil Gaiman
Truth exists for the wise, beauty for the feeling heart.
~ Friedrich Schiller
Among the children of God, it was they who were most able to rightly divide the word of truth.
~ John Nelson Darby
Truth is available to the ears that can hear it.
~ Roseanne Barr
Truth that peeps Over the glass's edge when dinner's done.
~ Robert Browning
Yet do not miss the moral, my good men. For Saint Paul says that all that's written well Is written down some useful truth to tell. Then take the wheat and let the chaff lie still.
~ Geoffrey Chaucer
Intuition is more than knowledge, and truth comes pure from the heart.
~ Don Bradley
Don't go for happiness, go for truth!
~ Charles Tart
Thus each truth discovered was a rule available in the discovery of subsequent ones.
~ Rene Descartes
An epigram is a flashlight of a truth; a witticism, truth laughing at itself.
~ Minna Antrim
Funny how people despise platitudes, when they are usually the truest thing going. A thing has to be pretty true before it gets to be a platitude.
~ Katharine Fullerton Gerould
There are no new truths, but only truths that have not been recognized by those who have perceived them without noticing.
~ Mary McCarthy
Embrace truth as it is revealed to-day by human reason.
~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton
To know, to get into the truth of anything, is ever a mystic art, of which the best logic's can but babble on the surface.
~ Thomas Carlyle
Take the armor off, so the arrow of the Truth can penetrate you.
~ Adyashanti
Intuition is not infallible; it only seems to be the truth. It is a message which we may interpret wrongly.
~ Christina Stead
You can cram a truth into an epigram - the truth, never.
~ Norman Douglas
...words are the gateway to reality, the means by which we engage with the objective truth beyond ourselves.
~ Joseph Pearce
Oh well, the truth hurts, doesn't it?
~ Robin Roberts
The signal is the truth. The noise is what distracts us from the truth.
~ Nate Silver
Autobiography is an unrivaled vehicle for telling the truth about other people.
~ Philip Guedalla
All the poet can do today is warn. That is why true Poets must be truthful.
~ Wilfred Owen