Quotes about Insight
Accustom yourself to attend closely to what is said by others, and as far as possible to penetrate into the mind of the speaker.
— Marcus Aurelius
There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it.
— Cicero
What you don't know won't hurt you. A dubious maxim: sometimes what you don't know can hurt you very much.
— Margaret Atwood
Not real can tell us about real.
— Margaret Atwood
As it says in the Bible, For now we through a glass, darkly; but then face to face. If it is face to face, there must be two looking.
— Margaret Atwood
It's old light, and there's not much of it. But it is enough to see by.
— Margaret Atwood
He has something we don't have, he has the word.
— Margaret Atwood
Then I remembered something I'd seen and hadn't noticed, at the time. It wasn't the army. It was some other army.
— Margaret Atwood
We have learned to see the world in gasps.
— Margaret Atwood
She looks at you as if she really sees you." So many people had looked past me. "I think I'd like that," I said. "No," said Becka. "That's why she's so scary.
— Margaret Atwood
Philosophy began when man ate the produce of the earth and suffered indigestion.
— Khalil Gibran
There was a time when I had all the answers. My real growth began when I discovered that the questions to which I had the answers were not the important questions.
— Reinhold Niebuhr