Quotes about Insight

It was the first time it had ever occurred to me, that this detestable cant of false humility might have originated out of the Heep family. I had seen the harvest, but had never thought of the seed.

The spiritual journey has to do with learning to think more deeply and take as long a time as we need. That's the path to wisdom.

Let us consider that we are all partially insane. It will explain us to each other; it will unriddle many riddles; it will make clear and simple many things which are involved in haunting and harassing difficulties and obscurities now.

April 1. This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four..

The common eye sees only the outside of things, and judges by that, but the seeing eye pierces through and reads the heart and the soul, finding there capacities which the outside didn't indicate or promise, and which the other kind of eye couldn't detect.

Homely truth is unpalatable.

Let us consider that we are all insane. It will explain us to each other. It will unriddle many riddles

The best cure for Christianity is reading the Bible.

I love to hear myself talk, because I get so much instruction and moral upheaval out of it.

One lives to find out.

Yes, a genuine expert can always foretell a thing that is five hundred years away easier than he can a thing that's only five hundred seconds off.

I do not wish to hear about the moon from someone who has not been there.