Quotes About Insight

The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts - the less you know the hotter you get.

If we take the world's enduring religions at their best, we discover the distilled wisdom of the human race.

The wisest mind has something yet to learn.

Gratitude is the beginning of wisdom. Stated differently, true wisdom cannot be obtained unless it is built on a foundation of true humility and gratitude.

Wisdom is found only in truth.

APHORISM, n. Predigested wisdom.

Knowledge is the acquiring of facts, understanding is the interpreting of facts, wisdom the application.

I've met many thinkers and many cats, but the wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.

In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.

Some folks are wise and some are otherwise.

The wisdom's in the trees not the glass windows.

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

the best classroom in the world is at the feet of an elderly person.

As one lamp serves to dispel a thousand years of darkness, so one flash of wisdom destroys ten thousand years of ignorance.

Wisdom doesn't go out of style, even if it's in increasingly short supply.

Conventional wisdom is no wisdom at all. Conventional wisdom is taking somebody else's word for the way things are It's the followers of this world who rely on assumption. Not the leaders.

"All conditioned things are impermanent" - when one sees this with wisdom, one turns away from suffering.

The wise are not wise because they make no mistakes. They are wise because they correct their mistakes as soon as they recognize them.

APHORISM, n. Predigested wisdom. The flabby wine-skin of his brain Yields to some pathologic strain, And voids from its unstored abysm The driblet of an aphorism. "The Mad Philosopher," 1697

The wisdom of nations lies in their proverbs, which are brief and pithy.

Years teach us more than books.

What the soul sees and has experienced, that it knows; the rest is appearance, prejudice and opinion.

There is no capital more useful than intellect and wisdom, and there is no indigence more injurious than ignorance and unawareness.

Skills come with age, but wisdom, I doubt it very, very much.