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Quotes About Insight

In a group of intelligent men expect only one to be wise.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
A wise man is a student though he is a teacher.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
One who has great wisdom has great power.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Sleep, where in the waste is the wisdom?
~ James Joyce, Finnegans Wake
Without fools there would be no wisdom.
~ Benjamin ndayishimiye
I handle wisdom only after I just looked down, listened to and understood.
~ Abdul'Rauf Hashmi
If you have something to say, make it meaningful, all else is meaningless.
~ Ray Price Billy
If wisdom is a place, you should be the wisest one to live there..
~ Munia Khan
Winners will take what they know and share it with others.The lips of the righteous feed many: but fools die for want of wisdom.
~ Anonymous
Wisdom is not to be at the top of a giant pyramid and hence see everywhere clearly, but wisdom is to be at the top, at the bottom, to be inside the pyramid, it is to be everywhere!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
...don't discount intuition. It holds more wisdom than technology can ever afford
~ Jack C. Monroe
Her simplicity fathomed what clever people falsified.
~ Virginia Woolf
Proverbs and truisms are for this reason dangerous, because they produce blindness or non-thought.
~ Idries Shah
EXPECTATION If, from time to time, you give up expectation, you will be able to perceive what it is you are getting.
~ Idries Shah, Reflections
Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaWisdom: Something you can learn without knowing it.
~ Idries Shah, Caravan of Dreams
Oracle of Delphos
~ Know Thyself
The eyesight for an eagle is what thought is to a man.
~ Dejan Stojanovic, The Creator
Collect as precious pearls the words of the wise and the virtuous.
~ Abdelkader Djezairi
Wisdom is not counted in grammers, niether in fluency, but vividly shown in mannerism.
~ Michael Bassey Johnson
If we fail to read, we miss the treasure of wisdom.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
The more you know, the more you know you know nothing.
~ Markus W. Lunner
No one ever pays to learn the most important things.
~ Neel Burton
Academic pedigree alone is no guarantor of useful knowledge and wisdom.
~ Robert Samuelson
Well, you can fairly claim the day hasn't been wasted, ' owned Cadfael generously, 'if something's been learned.
~ Ellis Peters