Quotes about Insight

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.

Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.

Patience is the companion of wisdom.

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.

Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Rarely affirm, seldom deny, always distinguish.

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.

Let observation with extensive viewSurvey mankind, from China to Peru.

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.

Every man wishes to be wise, and they who cannot be wise are almost always cunning.

There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'

The only way to get our values right is to see, not the beginning, but the end of the way, to see things not only in the light of time but in the light of Eternity.