Quotes About Insight

Knowing thyself is the height of wisdom.

It takes a wise man to recognize a wise man.

Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.

To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

The eyes are the windows of the soul.

The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely.

Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not wisdom.

The beginning of wisdom is the beginning of supernatural power.

A good decision is based on knowledge, and not on numbers.

Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict between thinking and feeling.

The study of History is the beginning of wisdom.

It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.

A smart man makes a mistake, learns from it, and never makes that mistake again.But a wise man finds a smart man and learns from him how to avoid the mistake altogether.

Reflective thinking turns experience into insight.

To take what you know for what you know, and what you do not know for what you do not know, that is knowledge indeed.

By amending our mistakes, we get wisdom. By defending our faults, we betray an unsound mind.

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Too often we... enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

Intelligence alone does not get us where we need to go or even necessarily where we want to go. For that, the human creature must exercise harder-won capacities of wisdom, and wise action.

How many lessons there are and how little they are taken

Never confuse acquiring degrees with wisdom.

Read yourself, not books. Truth isn't outside, that's only memory, not wisdom. Memory without wisdom is like an empty thermos bottle - if you don't fill it, it's useless.

Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection. Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.

Only in the irrational and unknown direction can we come to wisdom again