Quotes about Insight

What was fresh to her mind was worn out to his; and such capacity of thought and feeling as had ever been stimulated in him by the general life of mankind had long shrunk to a sort of dried preparation, a lifeless embalmment of knowledge.

the true seeing is within; and painting stares at you with an insistent imperfection.

Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.

The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

An expenditure of words without income of ideas will lead to intellectual bankruptcy.

Folks, I can tell you I've known eight presidents, three of them intimately.

The light that radiates from the great novels time can never dim, for human existence is perpetually being forgotten by man and thus the novelists' discoveries, however old they may be, will never cease to astonish.

Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.

Patience is the companion of wisdom.

My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is.

Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Rarely affirm, seldom deny, always distinguish.