Quotes About Insight

Wisdom is the essential basis of greatness.

There are subjects in which I wish to become knowledgeable, and subjects in which I wish to remain wise.

True wisdom is to know the extent of what you don't know quite as well as you know what you do know.

Education gives you neither experience nor wisdom.

The truth is at the bottom of a well. You look in a well, and you see the sun or the moon, but if you jump in, there's no longer the sun or the moon; there's the truth. Leonardo Sciascia

The sea does not contain all the pearls, the earth does not enclose all the treasures, and the flint-stone does not inclose all the diamonds, since the head of man encloses wisdom.

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

Who is wise? He that learns from everyone.

A problem adequately stated is a problem well on its way to being solved.

Wisdom is knowing what you don't know.

Many a truth is told in jest.

The fool wonders, the wise man asks.

When people show you who they are ... believe them!

There are moments in our lives, there are moments in a day, when we seem to see beyond the usual. Such are the moments of our greatest happiness. Such are the moments of our greatest wisdom.

To realize the unimportance of time is the gate to wisdom.

Wisdom and beauty form a very rare combination.

In all experience, there is something to be learned. In deepest sorrow, wisdom is found. In the well of despair, hope rises.

Listening causes me to find the existence of truth behind the veil.

Knowledge is telling the past. Wisdom is predicting the future.

Of all the forms of wisdom, hindsight is by general consent the least merciful, the most unforgiving.

In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.

The greater the step forward in knowledge, the greater is the one taken backward in search of wisdom.

Wise? No, I simply learned to think.