Quotes about Insight
It's old light, and there's not much of it. But it is enough to see by.
— Margaret Atwood
He has something we don't have, he has the word.
— Margaret Atwood
Then I remembered something I'd seen and hadn't noticed, at the time. It wasn't the army. It was some other army.
— Margaret Atwood
We have learned to see the world in gasps.
— Margaret Atwood
She looks at you as if she really sees you." So many people had looked past me. "I think I'd like that," I said. "No," said Becka. "That's why she's so scary.
— Margaret Atwood
Philosophy began when man ate the produce of the earth and suffered indigestion.
— Khalil Gibran
There was a time when I had all the answers. My real growth began when I discovered that the questions to which I had the answers were not the important questions.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
We have what we seek, it is there all the time, and if we give it time, it will make itself known to us.
— Thomas Merton
The effort to see things without distortion takes something like courage and this courage is essential to the artist, who has to look at everything as though he saw it for the first time.
— Henri Matisse
It is high time that we realized that it is pointless to praise the light and preach it if nobody can see it. It is much more needful to preach the art of seeing.
— Carl Jung
The genius of Man in our time has gone into jet-propulsion, atom-splitting, penicillin-curing, etc. There is none left over for works of imagination; of spiritual insight or mystical enlightenment.
— Malcolm Muggeridge
Give me insight into today and you may have the antique and future worlds.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson