Quotes about Insight

The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.

Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.

The soul never thinks without a picture.

My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people don't know.

If you never ask yourself any questions about the meaning of a passage, you cannot expect the book to give you any insight you do not already possess.

You enter the extraordinary by way of the ordinary.

The writers who get my personal award are the ones who show exceptional promise of looking at their lives in this world as candidly and searchingly and feelingly as they know how and then of telling the rest of us what they have found there most worth finding. We need the eyes of writers like that to see through. We need the blood of writers like that in our veins.

Science is not wisdom.

Learning comes from books; penetration of a mystery from suffering.

Protestant commentaries, I discovered, were also particularly interesting because Protestants have spent more time on Scripture than most of us.

The highest point of philosophy is to be both wise and simple; this is the angelic life.

President Eyring is a wise, learned, and spiritual man.