Quotes About Insight

The entire method consists in the order and arrangement of the things to which the mind's eye must turn so that we can discover some truth.

The truth doesn't hurt. Whatever it is, it doesn't hurt. It's better to know the truth.

So sophisticated and smart, but our eyes tell us lies, or at best the truth in part.

It's not in the book or in the writer that readers discern the truth of what they read; they see it in themselves, if the light of truth has penetrated their minds.

There is only one Art, whose sole criterion is the power, the authenticity, the revelatory insight, the courage and suggestiveness with which it seeks its truth.

What we search for in fiction is not so much reality, but the epiphany of truth.

We do not know a truth without knowing its cause.

Fable has strong shoulders that carry far more truth than fact can.

He who never ventures beyond actuality will never win the prize of truth.

In good comedy, the structure comes from truth and that weird eye that looks at the way life is.

The truth often sounds paradoxical.

The words "question" and "quest" are cognates. Only through inquiry can we discover truth.

Just knows, and knows no more, her Bible true,- A truth the brilliant Frenchman never knew.

Once you know the truth, it's always obvious

And so he who looks down at his feet will not know the truth, but he who discerns by the sun which way to go.

I cling to depression, thinking it a form of truth.

You think you know everything about a person, but the truth often comes as a surprise.

Sometimes people can surprise you. Sometimes they have a great capacity to hear the truth.

Through doubt we arrive at the truth.

Humour plays close to the big, hot fire, which is the truth, and the reader feels the heat.

Who sees the other half of Self, sees Truth.

The buried truth germinates and breaks through to the light.

We sometimes find truth, but more often it finds us.

Everything I wrote was true because I believed what I saw.