Quotes About Insight

The ignorant man is an ox. He grows in size, not in wisdom.

When wisdom and knowledge appear, great pretense arises.

True wisdom is knowing what you don't know

Night is the mother of counsels.

Putting is like wisdom - partly a natural gift and partly the accumulation of experience.

Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.

Cleverness is not wisdom.

a problem well put is half solved.

Stupidity well packaged can sound like wisdom.

Let men be wise by instinct if they can, but when this fails be wise by good advice.

Wisdom is only found in truth. [Ger., Die Weisheit ist nur in der Wahrheit.]

Solitude is the best nurse of wisdom.

There is no great concurrence between learning and wisdom.

The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

there is nothing so easy as to be wise for others; a species of prodigality, by-the-by - for such wisdom is wholly wasted.

Actually I feel I'm a better player; more mentally. I guess you get better with age people say. You have a lot more wisdom.

Common and vulgar people ascribe all ills that they feel to others; people of little wisdom ascribe to themselves; people of much wisdom, to no one.

The wise man avoids evil by anticipating it.

Knowledge gropes but meets not Wisdom's face.

The result proves the wisdom of the act.

Those who know are wise. Those who know themselves are enlightened.

Our passions, when well exercised, have wisdom; they guide our thinking, our values, our survival.

Most of us are wiser than we may appear to be. On one level, wisdom is nothing more profound than an ability to follow oneÂ's own advice.

Tis long ere time can mitigate your grief; To wisdom fly, she quickly brings relief.