Quotes about Insight

You enter the extraordinary by way of the ordinary.

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.

Science is not wisdom.

Learning comes from books; penetration of a mystery from suffering.

Protestant commentaries, I discovered, were also particularly interesting because Protestants have spent more time on Scripture than most of us.

The highest point of philosophy is to be both wise and simple; this is the angelic life.

President Eyring is a wise, learned, and spiritual man.

Whosoever wisely examines the works of God will speedily discover what is next to be done.

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.

A good discourse is that from which nothing can be retrenched without cutting into the quick.

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.

A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.