Quotes about Insight
The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.
— St. Augustine
An expenditure of words without income of ideas will lead to intellectual bankruptcy.
— Ravi Zacharias
Folks, I can tell you I've known eight presidents, three of them intimately.
— Joe Biden
The light that radiates from the great novels time can never dim, for human existence is perpetually being forgotten by man and thus the novelists' discoveries, however old they may be, will never cease to astonish.
— Milan Kundera
Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.
— St. Augustine
Patience is the companion of wisdom.
— St. Augustine
My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is.
— St. Augustine
Unless you believe, you will not understand.
— St. Augustine
Rarely affirm, seldom deny, always distinguish.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Mere sincerity, passionate devotion, clarity of conviction, and depth of insight are all ultimately useless unless they are rooted in and focused on the person and work of Jesus.
— Sam Storms
Let observation with extensive viewSurvey mankind, from China to Peru.
— Samuel Johnson
What a strange narrowness of mind now is that, to think the things we have not known are better than the things we have known.
— Samuel Johnson