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Quotes About Insight

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
~ Francis Bacon, The Essays
For knowledge, add something every day. For wisdom....subtract.
~ Laozi
He is happiest who hath power to gather wisdom from a flower.
~ Mary Howitt
... To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.
~ Evelyn Waugh
Flexibility comes from having multiple choices; wisdom comes from having multiple perspectives.
~ Robert Dilts
The learned man knows that he is ignorant.
~ Victor Hugo
Self-reflection is the school of wisdom.
~ Baltasar Gracian
Look for the answer inside your question.
~ Rumi
Wisdom is not in words; Wisdom is meaning within words.
~ Khalil Gibran
It is easier to look wise than to talk wisely.
~ Ambrose
To know you are ignorant is the beginning of wisdom.
~ Marion Zimmer Bradley
The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their proper name.
~ Confucius
Don't mistake knowledge for wisdom.
~ Lil B
See things from the boy's point of view.
~ Robert Baden-Powell
All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, until they take root in our personal experience.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
As our knowledge is converted to wisdom, the door to opportunity is unlocked.
~ Barbara W. Winder
Where wisdom is called for, force is of little use.
~ Herodotus
Wisdom and deep intelligence require an honest appreciation of mystery.
~ Thomas W. Moore
Knowledge is an addiction, as drink; knowledge does not bring understanding. Knowledge can be taught, but not wisdom; there must be freedom from knowledge for the coming of wisdom.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.
~ Socrates
Now I know what the atom looks like.
~ Ernest Rutherford
Doubt is the beginning, not the end, of wisdom.
~ George Iles
Of all our possessions, wisdom alone is immortal.
~ Isocrates
These days people seek knowledge, not wisdom. Knowledge is of the past, wisdom is of the future.
~ Vernon Cooper