Quotes About Insight

There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success.

From their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.

Disappointment is the nurse of wisdom.

You can't expect to win unless you know why you lose.

He who lives without committing any folly is not so wise as he thinks.

Many have been the wise speeches of fools, though not so many as the foolish speeches of wise men.

Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.

You men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are the fools.

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.

Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight.

Fortune truly helps those who are of good judgment.

To those who know thee not, no words can paint! And those who know thee, know all words are faint!

He that walketh with wise men shall be wise.

It is characteristic of spontaneous friendship to take on, without enquiry and almost at first sight, the unseen doings and unspoken sentiments of our friends; the part known gives us evidence enough that the unknown part cannot be much amiss.

There was a wise man in the East whose constant prayer was that he might see today with the eyes of tomorrow.

Genius, in truth, means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.

It takes immense genius to represent, simply and sincerely, what we see in front of us.

Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Getting an idea should be like sitting down on a pin; it should make you jump up and do something.

Wisdom is harder to do than it is to know.

What you theoretically know, vividly realize.

The things people discard tell more about them than the things they keep.

Only he who can see the invisible can do the impossible.