Quotes About Insight

It is easy to be wise on behalf of others than to be so for ourselves.

It is wisdom that is seeking for wisdom.

Men who love wisdom should acquaint themselves with a great many particulars.

All that we need to know all the wisdom of the cosmos we will find in our own heart

When a man understands the art of seeing, he can trace the spirit of an age and the features of a king even in the knocker on a door.

The disease having been caused by allowing cleverness to displace wisdom, no amount of clever research is likely to produce a cure.

The disadvantage of becoming wise is that you realize how foolish you've been.

Wisdom is the power to see, and the inclination to choose, the best and highest goal, together with the surest means of attaining it.

Knowledge studies others, wisdom is self known.

Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

Wisdom can only come through honest introspection.

Know what you know and know that you don't know what you don't know — that is the characteristic of one who knows.

The thing that we possess, that machines don't, is the ability to exhibit wisdom.

As nothing is more easy than to think, so nothing is more difficult than to think well.

Experience increases our wisdom but doesn't reduce our follies.

The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom.

One of the toughest battles in intelligence is combating conventional wisdom.

All is but lip-wisdom which wants experience.

Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own: [I hate a sage who is not wise for himself]

Knowledge without transformation is not wisdom.

It's amazing how much 'mature wisdom' resembles being too tired.

The beginning of all wisdom is recognition of facts.

Pure wisdom always directs itself towards God; the purest wisdom is knowledge of God.

As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing.