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Quotes About Insight

O truth divine! enlightened by thy ray, I grope and guess no more, but see my way.
~ John Arbuthnot
The truth [always] lies in things that have no words.
~ Dennis Quaid
It is better to understand a part of truth and apply it to our lives than to understand nothing at all and flounder helplessly in a vain attempt to pierce the mystery of existence.
~ Jawaharlal Nehru
If you wish to assured of the truth of Christianity, try it. Believe, and if thy belief be right, that insight which gradually transmutes faith into knowledge will be the reward of thy belief.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
This sounds an extraordinary statement to make, but in fact all truth is very ordinary.
~ Brian Perkins
Dark Error's other hidden side is truth.
~ Victor Hugo
An unsurpassed master of the art of laying bare the inmost core of spiritual truth.
~ Géza Vermès
They frequently find the truth who do not seek it, they who do, frequently lose it.
~ Fanny Kemble
The truth is a rabbit in a bramble patch. All you can do is circle around and say it's somewhere in there.
~ Pete Seeger
There's a ton of truth in Flannery O'Connor's notion that "Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days."
~ George Singleton
Proverbs should be sold in pairs, a single one being but a half truth.
~ William Mathews
The experiences of life teach truth.
~ Harold Klemp
Some of the most profound truths about us are things that we stop saying in the middle.
~ Ned Vizzini
By the flaws in the picture the truth will emerge.
~ William S. Burroughs
All your life you live so close to truth, it becomes a permanent blur in the corner of your eye, and when something nudges it into outline it is like being ambushed by a grotesque.
~ Tom Stoppard
Deride not what I say because of its simplicity. Truth is always simple.
~ George S. Clason
Images split the truth in fractions.
~ Denise Levertov
I don't know what is truth,but I can tell you how to find it!
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.
~ Samuel Butler
Storytelling is the art of unfolding knowledge in a way that makes each piece contribute to a larger truth.
~ Philip Gerard
The more we pay for any truth, the better is our bargain.
~ William Law
I've seen the truth, and it makes no sense.
~ Garrison Keillor
Reason is the slow and torturous method by which those who do not know the truth discover it
~ Blaise Pascal
Deep thinking is attainable only by a man of deep feeling, and all truth is a species of revelation
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge