Quotes about Insight

There is no such thing as darkness only a failure to see.

Those who have put out the people's eyes, reproach them of their blindness.

Not to know at large of things remote From use, obscure and subtle, but to know That which before us lies in daily life, Is the prime wisdom.

Few sometimes may know, when thousands err.

We judge things by their present appearances, but the Lord sees them in their consequences.

Interpretis officium est, non quid ipse velit, sed quid sentiat ille quem interpretatur, exponere," Hieron. Apol. adv. Rufin.;—for when the mind is really affected with the discovery of truth itself, it will be guided and directed in the declaration of it unto others.

Wisdom ruleth in counsel -- so do riches.

There is only one thing that it requires real courage to say, and that is a truism.

Coincidences are spiritual puns.

You can only find truth with logic if you have already found it without it.

A writer's greatest reward is naming something unnamed that many people are feeling. A writer's greatest punishment is being misunderstood. The same words can do both.

It also reminds me of an organizing principle: Anybody who is experiencing something is more expert in it than the experts.