Quotes About Insight

When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow, I look back.

The past is the best prophet of the future.

Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday.

We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.

The past is a guidepost, not a hitching post.

To disdain today is to prove that yesterday has been misunderstood.

Reappraise the past, reevaluate where we've been, clarify where we are, and predict or anticipate where we are headed.

All thought is a feat of association; having what's in front of you bring up something in your mind that you almost didn't know you knew.

Thought is born of failure.

Who makes quick use of the moment is a genius of prudence.

Learning without thought is labor lost.

The mind grows by what it feeds on.

A penny for your thought.

I think and think for months, for years. Ninety-nine times the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

What a pity human beings can't exchange problems. Everyone knows exactly how to solve the other fellow's.

Horse sense is what keeps horses from betting on what people will do.

The artist doesn't see things as they are, but as he is.

It is not wise to be wiser than is necessary.

The wisdom of our ancestors.

It is easy to be wise after the event.

No one could be so wise as Thurlow looked.

Some are weather-wise, some are otherwise.

Wisdom is only found in trudi.

The heart is wiser than the intellect.