Quotes About Insight

Jay Leno told me once, 'Don't do jokes about things you don't know about.'

I don't really know jokes. I'm just in on the joke.

Everyone can write jokes and makes things clever.

Knowing what jokes will work is second nature; you just feel it.

Pain can give you sight or make you blind.

You'll understand me when you're older. Then you'll see how men can blind you. And I mean blind you. To the point that you're no longer yourself.

Learning is my sole delight.

Altro diletto che imparar non provo.

Why is it only in darkness that we remember what sustained us even in the light?

My essays… come home to men's business and bosoms.

Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.

It is the wisdom of the crocodiles, that shed tears when they would devour.

Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.

Wise men make more opportunities than they find.

Lucid intervals and happy pauses.

Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.

No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of Truth.

Since one cannot know all there is to be known about everything,one needs to know something about everything.

A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.

By far the best proof is experience.

Truth will sooner come out from error than from confusion.

For all knowledge and wonder (which is the seed of knowledge) is an impression of pleasure in itself.

Knowledge itself is power

Solomon saith, 'He that considereth the wind, shall not sow, and he that looketh to the clouds, shall not reap.' A wise man will make more opportunities, than he finds.