Quotes About Insight

I don't fancy colors of the face, I'm always attracted to colors of the brain.

The gateways to wisdom and knowledge are always open.

Be wiser than other people if you can; but do not tell them so.

In order to have wisdom we must have ignorance.

The intellect of the wise is like glass; it admits the light of heaven and reflects it.

There is only one thing age can give you, and that is wisdom.

Literature deserves its prestige for one reason above all others - because it's a tool to help us live and die with a little bit more wisdom, goodness, and sanity.

One of the joys of reading is the ability to plug into the shared wisdom of mankind.

Search out the wisdom of nature, there is depth in all her doings; she seemeth prodigal of power, yet her rules are the maxims of frugality.

All discoveries in art and science result from an accumulation of errors.

The person I like most is the one who points out my defects

Your heart is uncomplicated. It knows what it knows and acts accordingly. Greater wisdom is hard to find.

To know when to be generous and when firm—that is wisdom.

This is the nature of genius, to be able to grasp the knowable even when no one else recognizes that it is present.

There is advantage in the wisdom won from pain.

The best teacher is experience and not through someone's distorted point of view

A word to the wise is -- unnecessary.

We need modern ideas, but we also need ancient wisdom. If we deny ancient wisdom we are making a big mistake.

I've got so much wisdom and have lived through so much life that I feel more powerful than I ever have.

More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men use.

A grain of gold will gild a great surface, but not so much as a grain of wisdom.

The masters of life know the way, for they listen to the voice within them, the voice of wisdom and simplicity, the voice that reasons beyond cleverness and knows beyond knowledge.

Knowledge is a thing that one cannot have enough of. It is the fruit of wisdom, to be eaten carefully and digested fully, unlike that lunch you are bolting down, little friend.

Relaxation is the doorway to both wisdom and compassion.