Quotes About Insight

Fiction is the microscope of truth.

I joke around sometimes and say that the DP [director of photography] is like a shrink for the director, but there's some truth in there.

jokes are used to hide the truth!

If you want the truth to stand clear before you, never be for or against.

If you did nothing but pursue the truth about yourself for the rest of your life, you would never run out of fresh discoveries.

On every parable you ride to every truth.

Every opinion which embodies somewhat of the portion of truth which the common opinion omits, ought to be considered precious, with whatever amount of error and confusion that truth may be blended.

Question your answers, Truth has no anger

We do not progress from error to truth, but from truth to truth

I hope that I am generous and tolerant, but certainly on the intellectual side I think that there are discoverable truths, and some things that are closer approximations to the truth than others.

You cannot gather much truth by searching the fields; you must sink shafts.

Steady, patient, persevering thinking will generally surmount every obstacle in search of truth.

In the space of no-mind, truth descends like light

She was no longer struggling against the perception of facts, but adjusting herself to their clearest perception.

What further helps to reveal reality is when our personal thinking ceases to take reality for granted.

A good comic explores the imagination, but it's always got to have those notes of truth running through it.

Errors belong to libraries; truth, to the human mind.

The truth, I discovered, is a tree that grows as a man gains access to experience. A child sees the acorn of his daily life, but a man looks back on the oak.

What is new is not always true, and what is true is not always new.

The key holds the truth

But you were only sixteen and not far off from the truth, as only sixteen-year-olds can be.

Thus I, gone forth, as spiders do, In spider's web a truth discerning, Attach one silken strand to you For my returning.

Understanding is the key to true knowledge

Poetry is, above all, an approach to the truth of feeling.