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Quotes About Insight

It is not hoary hairs that bring wisdom; some have an old head on young shoulders.
~ Menander
There is no happiness where there is no wisdom.
~ Sophocles
Asking doesn't mean you lack wisdom - it's evidence of wisdom.
~ Andy Stanley
Knowledge is the antidote to fear
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Today the greatest single source of wealth is between your ears.
~ Brian Tracy
Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.
~ H. L. Mencken
It is better to listen to a crow that lives in trees than to a learned man who lives only in ideas.
~ Kate Horsley
We get very little wisdom from success, you know.
~ William Saroyan
To recognize the significant in the factual is wisdom.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The bad one is that way because of the ignorance, therefore he can be healed with wisdom.
~ Socrates
Finding patterns is the essence of wisdom
~ Dennis Prager
I don't profess to be profound; but I do lay claim to common sense.
~ Emily Dickinson
We believe in the wisdom once expressed by the hockey star Wayne Gretzky, who explained his success by saying, 'I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.'
~ Norman Ralph Augustine
So that the lover of myths, which are a compact of wonders, is by the same token a lover of wisdom.
~ Aristotle
A wise man who cultivates wisdom may sometimes drown in it.
~ Eiji Yoshikawa
When we allow ourselves to feel what we are feeling-without trying to understand it, explain it, or judge it-we reach a point where the true wisdom reveals itself.
~ Michael Eisen
Wisdom chooses the unknown to be its reason.
~ Akiane Kramarik
Nine tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
The more I know about myself the more dynamic I become, the more expansive I become.
~ Nirmala Srivastava
If a warrior lacked wisdom, courage alone would not keep him alive for long.
~ Larry McMurtry
The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names in research.
~ Darold Treffert
Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.
~ Benjamin Franklin
From the errors of other nations, let us learn wisdom.
~ Thomas Paine
Wisdom makes light the darkness of ignorance.
~ Gautama Buddha