Quotes About Insight

By suffering comes wisdom.

No one has a monopoly on wisdom, and even for people who aren't religious, you can learn things from religious people.

To know that one knows what one knows, and to know that one doesn't know what one doesn't know, there lies true wisdom.

What is madness To those who only observe, is often wisdom To those to whom it happens.

The scarcity of years does not necessitate lack of wisdom.

My mother says looking is the nature of wisdom.

Wisdom oft comes from the mouth of babes.

Fools laugh at others. Wisdom laughs at itself.

Experience does by no means automatically leads to wisdom and understanding.

if you offer wisdom from a third party, it seems less arrogant and more acceptable.

Buhhdism is wisdom. As long as we have wisdom, we can put all things to the best use, we can turn everything in the direction of happiness.

Wisdom often exists under a shabby coat.

Statistics are just people with the tears wiped off.

The value of hatred and ignorance is found in the fact that without them we could never truly appreciate wisdom and love.

You are foolish, but without fools there would be no wisdom.

The causes being known, the knowledge of the effects is sure to follow.

Knowledge itself is the highest reward of knowledge.

The concentrated mind is a lamp that shows us every corner of the soul.

First hear, then understand, and then, leaving all distractions, shut your minds to outside influences, and devote yourselves to developing the truth within you. (I.

We see the world as we are.

Even by intellectually recognising the difficulties, we really do not know them until we feel them.

First hear, then understand, and then, leaving all distractions, shut your minds to outside influences, and devote yourselves to developing the truth within you. (I. 177)

The bottom of a lake we cannot see, because its surface is covered with ripples. It is only possible for us to catch a glimpse of the bottom, when the ripples have subsided, and the water is calm.

The majority of us cannot see beyond a few years, just as some animals cannot see beyond a few steps. Just a little narrow circle — that is our world. We have not the patience to look beyond, and thus become immoral and wicked. This is our weakness, our powerlessness.