Quotes About Insight

For there is assuredly nothing dearer to a man than wisdom, and though age takes away all else, it undoubtedly brings us that.

Real wisdom is simple. Living life rightly does not have to be a complicated challenge.

The next thing to having wisdom ourselves, is to profit by that of others.

I have depended on books not only for pleasure and for the wisdom they bring to all who read, but also for that knowledge which comes to others through their eyes and their ears.

If aught I have said is truth, that truth shall reveal itself in a clearer voice, and in words more kin to your thoughts.

Scoffing cometh not of wisdom.

It is very easy to speak words of wisdom from a comfortable distance, when one sees no reality, no details, none of the effect on men's minds.

Wisdom is what separates average people from extraordinary people.

Nothing is so contemptible as that affectation of wisdom, which some display, by universal incredulity.

Wisdom doesn't teach fools for long.

I'm very proud that I'm smart enough to get to the point

If it can be used again, it is not wisdom but theory.

There is another kind of wisdom, the wisdom of following - the wisdom of not taking the lead with your ego.

What is all your studying worth, all your learning, all your knowledge, if it doesn't lead to wisdom? And what's wisdom but knowing what is right, and what is the right thing to do?

Wisdom is knowledge applied. Head knowledge is useless on the battlefield. Knowledge stamped on the heartmmakes one wise

Books tap the wisdom of our species -- the greatest minds, the best teachers -- from all over the world and from all our history. And they're patient.

The intuitive wisdom that comes from your infinite mind can add to your creativity, success and well-being, and can take you to the threshold of enlightenment.

Assuming, as you grow older, that you're the guardian of the world's wisdom, even if you haven't necessarily lived enough to know what's right and wrong.

Some books we read, tho' few there are that hit the happy point where wisdom joins with wit.

There are no crowds in the shores of wisdom!

There is no such thing as the old age of the wise.

None of us was born knowing or wise; but men become wise by consideration, observation, experience.

In a sense, knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows: for details are swallowed up in principles.

And peradventure we have more cause to thank Him for our loss than for our winning; for His wisdom better seeth what is good for us than we do ourselves.