Quotes about Insight

It is only when the mind and character slumber that the dress can be seen.

Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.

No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.

The reason why men do not obey us is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.

The truth, the hope of any time, must always be sought in minorities.

To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men-that is genius.

What you see is what it is!

All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.

If we were to gain God's perspective, even for a moment, and were to look at the way we go through life accumulating and hoarding and displaying our things, we would have the same feelings of horror and pity that any sane person has when he views people in an asylum endlessly beating their heads against the wall.

You could tell a lot about someone by listening to him talk about his enemies.

Rich wisdom is better even than rich soil, young Neil. Jose sees now that you grow in wisdom like a weed in manure.

the older and younger Blumhardt and their friends. There would have been something significant to learn—as later developments prove—from the books of Friedrich Zündel, for example.