Quotes About Insight

Whenever you show up on a set where you haven't been from the beginning - at least myself - I'm kind of quiet. I just watch the politics and how everything unfolds.

People are divided into two classes - those who profit by experience and those who do not. The unfortunate part of it all is that the latter class is by far the larger of the two.

The unfortunate thing about this planet is that we are in no shortage of ignorance.

Well, God give them wisdom that have it; and those that are fools, let them use their talents.

Contemplation is wisdom's best nurse.

We denote this primary wisdom as Intuition, whilst all later teachings are tuitions.

For the subtlest folly proceeds from the subtlest wisdom.

To forget the elderly is to ignore the wisdom of the years.

My wisdom has long accumulated like a cloud, it becomes stiller and darker. So does all wisdom which shall one day bear lightnings.

No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, something more than we could learn for ourselves, from a book.

As much wisdom may be expended on a private economy as on an empire, and as much wisdom may be drawn from it.

Wisdom is also a deeper consciousness of ignorance.

To become wise you have to want to experience certain experiences, and so to run into their open jaws. This is very dangerous, tobe sure; many a "wise man" has been eaten up in doing so.

The exhaustion of the passions is the beginning of wisdom.

To make knowledge valuable, you must have the cheerfulness of wisdom.

Isn't it interesting what a stranger can offer? A little wisdom, a little mercy, a little love.

The possession of facts is knowledge; the use of them is wisdom.

I only know when I don't know a thing. My uncle has taught me that wisdom lies in that.

There is a certain wisdom of humanity which is common to the greatest men with the lowest, and which our ordinary education oftenlabors to silence and obstruct.

Ours is an age that's often obsessed with knowledge at the expense of wisdom.

There's simply no philosophizing without a love of wisdom, absolutely.

The way we gain wisdom in meditation is not by explanation. If you go into the planes of light, you will come out of the meditation knowing things ... things that are inexpressible.

In an active life is sown the seed of wisdom... And age, if it has not esteem, has nothing.

If one is only to talk from first-hand experience, conversation would be a very poor business.