Quotes about Insight
Half the world does not know how the other half lives.
— Francois Rabelais
No man better knows what good is than he who has endured evil.
— Anonymous
As for my next book, I am going to hold myself from writing it till I have it impending in me: grown heavy in my mind like a ripe pear, pendant, gravid, asking to be cut or it will fall.
— Virginia Woolf
The person who sees the difficulties so clearly that he does not discern the possibilities cannot inspire a vision in others.
— J. Oswald Sanders
One reason why people are unable to understand great Christian classics is that they are trying to understand without any intention of obeying them.
— J. Oswald Sanders
True leaders know that time spent listening is well invested.
— J. Oswald Sanders
Does it surprise you as much as it does me, this correspondence between things as they are and the pictures we have of them in our minds?
— JM Coetzee
Nevertheless we understood each other on all levels of madness...
— Jack Kerouac
I see as much as doors'll allow, open or shut.
— Jack Kerouac
I'm merely exploring souls & cities From the vantage point Of my ivory tower built, Built with the assistance of Opium That's enough, isnt it?
— Jack Kerouac
Nonetheless we understood each other on other levels of madness...
— Jack Kerouac
Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.