Quotes about Insight
You enter the extraordinary by way of the ordinary.
— Frederick Buechner
The writers who get my personal award are the ones who show exceptional promise of looking at their lives in this world as candidly and searchingly and feelingly as they know how and then of telling the rest of us what they have found there most worth finding. We need the eyes of writers like that to see through. We need the blood of writers like that in our veins.
— Frederick Buechner
Science is not wisdom.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
Learning comes from books; penetration of a mystery from suffering.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
Protestant commentaries, I discovered, were also particularly interesting because Protestants have spent more time on Scripture than most of us.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
The highest point of philosophy is to be both wise and simple; this is the angelic life.
— St. John Chrysostom
President Eyring is a wise, learned, and spiritual man.
— Joseph Wirthlin
Whosoever wisely examines the works of God will speedily discover what is next to be done.
— Thomas Becket
Every artist preserves deep within him a single source from which, throughout his lifetime, he draws what he is, and what he says. When the source dries up, the work withers and crumbles.
— Albert Camus
A good discourse is that from which nothing can be retrenched without cutting into the quick.
— Francis de Sales
Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained. But what matters is not what is witty but what is true.
— Albert Schweitzer
A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.
— Albert Einstein