Quotes about Insight
but it seems to me there is something beyond words--any words--all words--something that always escapes you when you try to grasp it--and yet leaves something in your hand which you wouldn't have had if you hadn't reached for it.
— LM Montgomery
There is a book of revelation in everyone's life.
— LM Montgomery
There are lots of things that never go by rule, There's a powerful pile o' knowledge That you never get at college, There are heaps of things you never learn at school.
— LM Montgomery
I'm good at asking questions, Marilla." "I believe you" was Marilla's emphatic comment.
— LM Montgomery
So far, the ordinary observer; an extraordinary observer might have seen that the chin was very pointed and pronounced; that the big eyes were full of spirit and vivacity; that the mouth was sweet-lipped and expressive; that the forehead was broad and full; in short, our discerning extraordinary observer might have concluded that no commonplace soul inhabited the body of this stray woman-child of whom shy Matthew Cuthbert was so ludicrously afraid.
— LM Montgomery
But we can't have things perfect in this imperfect world, as Mrs. Lynde says. Mrs. Lynde isn't exactly a comforting person sometimes, but there's no doubt she says a great many very true things.
— LM Montgomery
All womankind, from the highest to the lowest love jokes; the difficulty is to know how they choose to have them cut; and there is no knowing that, but by trying, as we do with our artillery in the field, by raising or letting down their breeches, till we hit the mark.
— Laurence Sterne
It is sad but unfortunately true that man learns nothing from history.
— Carl Jung
Love is blind, but a broken heart sees everything.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery. There comes a leap in consciousness, call it Intuition or what you will, the solution comes to you and you don't know how or why.
— Albert Einstein
I need the binocular approach of science and religion if I am to do any sort of justice to the deep and rich reality of the world in which we live.
— John Polkinghorne
Experience alone can decide on truth.
— Albert Einstein