Quotes about Insight

You can be sure that your deepest desires reveal important truths about your spiritual condition.

The natural man must know in order to believe; The spiritual man must believe in order to know

We all know that light travels faster than sound. That's why certain people appear bright until you hear them speak.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Somebody who only reads newspapers and at best books of contemporary authors looks to me like an extremely near-sighted person who scorns eyeglasses. He is completely dependent on the prejudices and fashions of his times, since he never gets to see or hear anything else.

When the solution is simple, God is answering.

The only source of knowledge is experience.

It occurred to me by intuition, and music was the driving force behind that intuition. My discovery was the result of musical perception.

Creating a new theory is not like destroying an old barn and erecting a skyscraper in its place. It is rather like climbing a mountain, gaining new and wider views, discovering unexpected connections between our starting points and its rich environment. But the point from which we started out still exists and can be seen, although it appears smaller and forms a tiny part of our broad view gained by the mastery of the obstacles on our adventurous way up.

No one does anything right in life, until they realize that they are making a mistake

Growth comes through analogy; through seeing how things connect, rather than only seeing how they might be different.

Look to the stars and from them learn.