Quotes About Insight

Whoever gives advice to a heedless man is himself in need of advice.

To come to know your enemy, first you must become his friend, and once you become his friend, all his defences come down. Then you can choose the most fitting method for his demise.

The highest endeavor of the mind, and the highest virtue, it to understand things by intuition.

Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.

From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.

We think a wise person is someone who solves problems. Truth is, a wise person is someone who avoids problems.

No one is wise by birth, for wisdom results from one own's efforts.

He who knows all the answers has not been asked all the questions.

The greatest wisdom is to get to know oneself.

Where wise actions are the fruit of life, wise discourse is the pollination.

The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.

Wisdom is knowing what to do with what you know.

I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.

Stupidity is sufficient unto itself. Wisdom can never learn enough.

Knowledge of languages is the doorway to wisdom.

It takes a great man to be a good listener.

The wiser a man is, the less talkative will he be.

The key to wisdom is this - constant and frequent questioning, for by doubting we are led to question and by questioning we arrive at the truth.

The next best thing to being wise oneself is to live in a circle of those who are.

A man only becomes wise when he begins to calculate the approximate depth of his ignorance.

They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve.

We make Idols of our concepts, but Wisdom is born of wonder

To understand the actual world as it is, not as we should wish it to be, is the beginning of wisdom.

Experience comes from what we have done. Wisdom comes from what we have done badly.