Quotes About Insight

In a war the most dangerous thing is to understand the enemy. To understand is to forgive.

The Djojobojo Prophecy doesn't just tell you WHAT happened and WHERE it happened...it tells you WHY it happened!

Knowing the enemy enables you to take the offensive, knowing yourself enables you to stand on the defensive.

War is the worst way of gathering knowledge about a foreign culture.

I was too far away to hear what was said but I saw in Val's eyes the same fear that I had once known and could well guess at Lucas' unthinking remark.

Never mind of what your enemy thinks of you, relax and think a head of him.

The whole art of war consists of guessing at what is on the other side of the hill.

A man does not look behind the door unless he has stood there himself

Robert De Niro, even though I've been in two other movies with him, I never really got to know him at all. But on this movie ["The Big Wedding"] I did.

Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

Know well what leads you forward and what holds you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom.

To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

Any fool can know. The point is to understand.

The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions.

Knowledge is not what is memorised. Knowledge is what benefits.

Patience is the companion of wisdom.

It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

Awareness of ignorance is the beginning of wisdom.

Knowing thyself, that is the greatest wisdom.

Intellect takes you to the door, but it doesn't take you into the house.

Every person that you meet knows something you don't; learn from them.

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.