Quotes about Insight
If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.
— Pablo Picasso
True art takes note not merely of form but also of what lies behind.
— Mahatma Gandhi
A book should contain pure discoveries, glimpses of terra firma, though by shipwrecked mariners, and not the art of navigation by those who have never been out of sight of land.
— Henry David Thoreau
There's nothing like drawing a thing to make you really see it.
— Margaret Atwood
That's what attracts us to serious paintings, I think: that shortfall, which we might call "personality", or maybe even "pain".
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
The balcony is a metaphor for a mental and emotional place of perspective, calm, and self-control. If life is a stage and we are all actors on that stage, then the balcony is a place from which we can see the entire play unfolding with greater clarity. To observe our selves, it is valuable to go to the balcony at all times, and especially before, during, and after any problematic conversation or negotiation.
— William Ury
Wisdom is oft-times nearer when we stoop Than when we soar.
— William Wordsworth
With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things.
— William Wordsworth
Man will occasionally stumble upon the truth but most times he will pick himself up and continue on.
— Winston Churchill
Wisdom is knowing what to do with what you know.
— Chuck Smith
Without revelation religion sinks back into a pernicious superstition.
— Herman Bavinck
Religious experience is neither the source nor the foundation of religious truth
— Herman Bavinck