Quotes About Insight

Only a fool learns from his own mistakes. The wise man learns from the mistakes of others.

Wisdom lies in thinking. The spear-head of thinking is rationalism.

When proven wrong, the wise man will correct himself and the ignorant will keep arguing.

Doubt is the origin of wisdom

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

It is not enough to acquire wisdom, it is necessary to employ it.

We learn from history that we do not learn from history

Allow me to offer a simple definition of wisdom. Wisdom is looking at life from God's point of view.

I am not going to respect... gray hairs unless there is wisdom beneath them.

I think I got a lot of life skills; I got a lot of wisdom; I've seen a lot of bad things happen to a lot of good people.

Whoever determines the truth from people alone will remain lost in the plains of bewilderment. Rather, know the truth, and you will know its people.

Knowledge is not power, it is only potential. Applying that knowledge is power. Understanding why and when to apply that knowledge is wisdom!

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

Knowledge is knowing a fact, wisdom is knowing what to do with that fact.

Knowledge is realizing that the street is one way; wisdom is looking in both directions anyway.

Data isn't information; information isn't knowledge; knowledge isn't wisdom.

Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration.

There are questions I'm still not wise enough to answer, just wise enough to no longer ask.

Discipline divorced from wisdom is not true discipline, but merely the meaningless following of custom, which is only a disguise for stupidity.

The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.

Knowledge talks, wisdom listens.

Information is not knowledge. The only source of knowledge is experience. You need experience to gain wisdom.

The mere physical man is like the ant crawling on the paper, who observes black lettering and attributes its production to the pen and nothing more.