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Quotes About Insight

We all have spiritual DNA; wisdom and truth are part of our genetic structure even if we don't always access it.
~ Surya Das
Knowledge is when you learn something new every day. Wisdom is when you let something go every day.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Knowledge is merely brilliance in organization of ideas and not wisdom. The truly wise person goes beyond knowledge.
~ Confucius
All new news is old news happening to new people
~ Malcolm Muggeridge
When Reason died, then Wisdom was born.
~ Sri Aurobindo
Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.
~ Elizabeth Hardwick
How poor is the wisdom of men, and how uncertain their forecast!
~ Teresa of Avila
Man is wise and constantly in quest of more wisdom; but the ultimate wisdom, which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed.
~ Hal Borland
It's only useful to ask, what wisdom have you learned from your misjudgments that will help you going forward?
~ David Brooks
There is no one who can give you wiser advice than you can give yourself: you will never make a slip, if you listen to your own heart.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Know how to ask. There is nothing more difficult for some people, nor for others, easier.
~ Baltasar Gracian
Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Man masters nature not by force, but by understanding
~ Jacob Bronowski
In the school of the spirit, man learns wisdom through humility.
~ Johannes Tauler
Even if I am but a pretender to wisdom, that in itself is philosophy.
~ Diogenes
Wisdom is the right use of knowledge.
~ Charles Spurgeon
With even a little intuitive wisdom we will be able to see clearly the ways of the world. We will come to understand that everything in the world is our teacher.
~ Ajahn Chah
A heretic is a man who sees with his own eyes
~ Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
...concepts are related to the senses; and, when feeling takes place, wisdom is shut out.
~ Huangbo Xiyun
If wisdom were offered me with the proviso that I should keep it shut up and refrain from declaring it, I should refuse. There's no delight in owning anything unshared.
~ Seneca the Younger
Each one of us has all the wisdom and knowledge we ever need right within us. It is available to us through our intuitive mind, which is our connection with universal intelligence.
~ Shakti Gawain
I could not accept from wisdom what love taught, woman is perfect.
~ Hilda Doolittle
Prudence is the footprint of Wisdom.
~ Amos Bronson Alcott
To know thyself is the beginning of wisdom.
~ Socrates