Quotes about Insight
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
It is just human nature to take time to connect the dots, I know that. But I also know that there can be a day of reckoning when you wish you had connected the dots more quickly.
— Al Gore
I cannot be awake for nothing looks to me as it did before, Or else I am awake for the first time, and all before has been a mean sleep.
— Walt Whitman
You only really get to know a person after a fight. Only then can you judge their true characters!
— Anne Frank