Quotes About Insight

A wise man hears one word and understands two.

Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.

Justice inclines her scales so that wisdom comes at the price of suffering.

Just like the car headlights impressively illuminating the dark streets, wisdom words powerfully enlighten the dark minds!

The wise man sees in the misfortune of others what he should avoid.

Wisdom is the daughter of experience

Arrogance is a great obstruction to wisdom.

There is no meditation without wisdom, and there is no wisdom without meditation. When a man has both meditation and wisdom, he is indeed close to nirvana.

Wisdom and Love must balance mutually. Wisdom without Love it's a destructive element. Love without Wisdom can leads us to error: love is law, but conscious love.

Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.

We are apt to think that our ideas are the creation of our own wisdom but the truth is that they are the result of the experience through outside contact.

A man must become wise at his own expense.

I was a long time learning that wisdom and experience are things apart; that to taste life is not to be confused with understanding what life is really all about.

All new ideas begin in a non-conforming mind that questions some tenet of the conventional wisdom.

I sit and talk to kids all day, because I feel like they carry the most wisdom.

To be fond of learning is near to wisdom.

All have the gift of speech, but few are possessed of wisdom.

Knowledge is power but only wisdom is liberty.

Humor is the mask of wisdom.

Observation, not old age, brings wisdom.

Much wisdom often goes with fewer words.

In complete darkness we are all the same, it is only our knowledge and wisdom that separates us, don't let your eyes deceive you.

Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.

I have seen life from the top down and the bottom up. I know how it looks both ways. And I know there is wisdom and that there is hope.