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Quotes About Insight

Whoever cannot seek the unforeseen sees nothing for the known way is an impasse.
~ Heraclitus, Fragments
It is one thing to be clever and another to be wise.
~ George R.R. Martin
Education is no substitute for intelligence.
~ Frank Herbert
Clear thinking at the wrong moment can stifle creativity.
~ Karl Lagerfeld
Your teacher might be a child who takes you by the hand and asks you a question that you hadn't considered before, and your answer to the child is your answer to yourself.
~ Wayne W. Dyer
When two partners always agree, one of them is not necessary." If there is some point you haven't thought about, be thankful if it is brought to your attention.
~ Dale Carnegie
The head thinks. The heart knows.
~ Rasheed Ogunlaru
Sciences may be learned by rote, but wisdom not.
~ Laurence Sterne
The loneliness is the mother of wisdom.
~ Laurence Sterne
Cunning differs from wisdom as twilight from open day.
~ Samuel Johnson
No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool.
~ Erica Jong
Wisdom begins when you discover the difference between "That doesn't make sense" and "I don't understand.
~ Mary Doria Russell
How the hell do I know what I find incredible? Credibility is an expanding field... Sheer disbelief hardly registers on the face before the head is nodding with all the wisdom of instant hindsight.
~ Tom Stoppard
Wisdom is not a matter of study, but a matter of living, and of sure action which rises above opposites.
~ Nilakanta Sri Ram
History is the queen of the humanities. It teaches wisdom and humility, and it tells us how things change through time.
~ Gordon S. Wood
What is strength without a double share of wisdom?
~ John Milton
The primary wisdom is intuition.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men that love wisdom must be acquainted with very many things indeed.
~ Heraclitus
Every evil is some good spelt backwards, and in it the wise know how to read Wisdom.
~ Coventry Patmore
Our dignity is not in what we do, but what we understand.
~ George Santayana
You cannot transmit wisdom and insight to another person. The seed is already there. A good teacher touches the seed, allowing it to wake up, to sprout, and to grow.
~ Nhat Hanh
A good smile is the sunshine of wisdom.
~ Hosea Ballou
Inspirational Quotes on: Honesty, Simplicity, Secret, Universe, Modesty, Peace Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Wisdom is a blaze, kindled by a leaping spark.
~ Plato