Quotes about Insight
We have what we seek, it is there all the time, and if we give it time, it will make itself known to us.
— Thomas Merton
It is high time that we realized that it is pointless to praise the light and preach it if nobody can see it. It is much more needful to preach the art of seeing.
— Carl Jung
The genius of Man in our time has gone into jet-propulsion, atom-splitting, penicillin-curing, etc. There is none left over for works of imagination; of spiritual insight or mystical enlightenment.
— Malcolm Muggeridge
Give me insight into today and you may have the antique and future worlds.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is just human nature to take time to connect the dots, I know that. But I also know that there can be a day of reckoning when you wish you had connected the dots more quickly.
— Al Gore
I cannot be awake for nothing looks to me as it did before, Or else I am awake for the first time, and all before has been a mean sleep.
— Walt Whitman
You only really get to know a person after a fight. Only then can you judge their true characters!
— Anne Frank
I am the best and sharpest critic of my own work. I know myself what is and what is not well written. Anyone who doesn't write doesn't know how wonderful it is.
— Anne Frank
Are most people so stingy and selfish? I've gained some insight into human nature since I came here, which is good, but I've had enough for the present.
— Anne Frank
I've gained some insight into human nature since I came here, which is good, but I've had enough for the present.
— Anne Frank
I like to think that Henry James said his classic line, A writer is someone on whom nothing is lost, while looking for his glasses, and that they were on top of his head.
— Anne Lamott
Are you willing to see what you are seeing, and to know what you know?
— Anne Lamott