Quotes About Insight

Information can be passed from one to another, like a silver dollar. There's absolutely no wisdom except what you learn for yourself.

Old politicians chew on wisdom past, And totter on in business to the last.

Any teacher can study books, but books do not necessarily bring wisdom, nor that human insight essential to consummate teaching skills.

That's what I've decided I am. A seeker of wisdom and truth.

A little while alone in your room will prove more valuable than anything else that could ever be given you.

Great wisdom not applied to action and behavior is meaningless data.

One thing that never ceases to amaze me, along with the growth of vegetation from the earth and of hair from the head, is the growth of understanding.

Our experience is composed rather of illusions lost than of wisdom acquired.

Let my heart be wise. It is the gods' best gift.

Learning passes for wisdom among those who want both.

What comes from a book is knowledge. What comes from the heart is wisdom.

What I lack in energy, I have in wisdom.

Although wisdom is built on life experiences, the mere accumulation of years guarantees nothing.

Wise men are not wise at all times.

I think small groups have more collective wisdom than an individual.

The difference between neurosis and wisdom is struggle.

Not too isolated, not too many relationships, the middle, that's wisdom.

wisdom ain't seeing what's in your face, but recognizing what's about to come!

Not to know is the beginning of wisdom.

The man of wisdom is the man of years.

I have the impression that the new generation of young people, are coming up on the scene with a sense "ancestorhood", and with more wisdom than was evident before.

His passions make man live, his wisdom merely makes him last.

It's surprising how much wisdom every man possesses -- if not for his own affairs, then for the affairs of others.

Of all whose words I have heard, no one attains to this, to know that wisdom is apart from all.