Quotes About Insight

After wisdom comes wit.

The true wisdom is to be always seasonable, and to change with a good grace in changing circumstances.

The wrath of the lion is the wisdom of God.

In the mountains of wisdom no climbing is in vain.

Wisdom loves the children of men, but she prefers those who come through foolishness to wisdom.

Wisdom is not the understanding of mystery. Wisdom is accepting that mystery is beyond understanding. That's what makes it mystery.

Age brings wisdom to some men, and to others chess.

Cunning is the dwarf of wisdom.

The wise man knows nothing if he cannot benefit from his wisdom. Wisdom is not only to be acquired, but also to be utilized.

How deluded we sometimes are by the clear notions we get out of books. They make us think that we really understand things of which we have no practical knowledge at all.

Great are those two gifts, wisdom and continence: wisdom, forsooth, whereby we are formed in the knowledge of God; continence whereby we are not conformed to this world.

Boredom is a blessing when it leads you to wisdom. And boredom is a curse when it leads you to frustration and depression.

The facts, although interesting, are irrelevant.

Wisdom is never dear, provided the article be genuine.

It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

One of the coolest and wisest hours a man has, is just after he awakes in the morning.

The longer and the deeper the thought, the shorter the sentence of wisdom will be.

What we call the wisdom that comes with age is usually simple caution.

What is not worth understanding is not knowing.

Wisdom doesn't come only from the experience you have had, but from the experience you have chosen not to have.

Spiritual growth is the only real growth

While you'll feel compelled to charge forward it's often a gentle step back that will reveal to you where you and what you truly seek.

Never take advice about never taking advice. That is an old vice of men - to dish it out without being able to take it - the blind leading the blind into more blindness.

Many things which are called 'secrets' are only things withheld from people until they can understand or effectively experience them.