Quotes about Insight

We shall see but little if we require to understand what we see. How few things can a man measure with the tape of his understanding! How many greater things might he be seeing in the meanwhile!

Not till we are completely lost or turned around, do we begin to find ourselves.

Confucius said, To know that we know what we know, and that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.

The greatest gains and values are farthest from being appreciated. We

A grain of gold will gild a great surface, but not so much as a grain of wisdom.

There is a world of difference between knowing something to be true in your head and experiencing the reality in your life.

When we do this we are allowing our circumstances to inform us about God. That is backwards. We ought always to allow God to inform us about our circumstances. When

But vain to popularize profundities, and all truth is profound.

On Ralph Waldo Emerson)I love all men who dive. Any fish can swim near the surface, but it takes a great whale to go down stairs five miles or more; and if he don't attain the bottom, why all the lead in Galena can't fashion the plummet that will. I'm not talking of Mr Emerson now -but of the whole corps of thought-divers, that have been diving and coming up again with bloodshot eyes since the world began.

To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.

An interesting insight into the ruthlessness of studio executives: I was having a conversation with Alex Gansa, a creator of 'Homeland,' and I said, 'So you guys must have seen 'Life' and liked me in it, right? That's the most recent thing I've done over here.' And he went, 'No, Damian. You actually nearly didn't get the job because of 'Life.'

You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.