Quotes About Insight

Intelligence, guided by kindness, is the highest wisdom. . . .

Man is born dead and he remains dead till he attains wisdom! Wisdom is the only resurrection man can obtain!

People are never helped in their suffering by what they think for themselves, but only by revelation of a wisdom greater than their own. It is this which lifts them out of their distress.

Travel is a ceaseless fount of surface education, But its wisdom will be simply superficial, if thou add not thoughts to things.

Once in a while there's wisdom in recognizing that the Boss is.

He is happy in his wisdom who has learned at another's expense.

Everywhere we see shadowy minds, cloudy brains! World needs more light of wisdom!

The life of a wise man is most of all extemporaneous, for he lives out of an eternity which includes all time.

Will is guided by wisdom. Wisdom comes from introspection, looking inside yourself, probing, studying the wisdom of the teachers, the masters and bringing that into your mind.

As my Buddhist teachers have shown me, wisdom emerges in the space around words as much as from language itself.

[Gratitude is] the cheerfulness of wisdom.

The days that are still to come are the wisest witnesses.

All things will be ambiguous, for this is the curse of wisdom.

When we really connect to that place of wisdom and strength and understanding, everything becomes easier.

A word to the wise isn't as good as a word from the wise.

The discovery of truth, by slow progressive meditation, is wisdom. - Intuition of truth, not preceded by perceptible meditation, is genius.

He swallowed a lot of wisdom, but all of it seems to have gone down the wrong way.

Late, I learned that when reason died, then Wisdom was born; before that liberation, I had only knowledge.

Do not dismiss the words of the old; they possess wisdom, which comes only with age, and often speak of things that the young are too immature to understand.

Listen carefully to what country people call mother wit. In those homely sayings are couched the collective wisdom of generations.

Wisdom isn't about knowing; it's an understanding that meaning is inexhaustible.

Accepting the gift may take the accumulated wisdom of some trodden miles, but it also opens the welcome windows of joy.

Wise men don't need concrete answers. By definition, they need wisdom." ~ Geraki

Epigrams delight us into wisdom.