Quotes About Insight

Experience is a question of instinct about life.

Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.

I am not at all cynical, I have merely got experience, which, however, is very much the same thing.

Anybody can have common sense, povided that they have no imagination

Things are because we see them, and what we see, and how we see it, depends on the Arts that influenced us. To look at a thing is very different from seeing a thing. One does not see anything until one sees its beauty. Then, and then only, does it comes into existence.

The supreme vice is shallowness.

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

To look wise is quite as good as understanding a thing, and very much easier.

Those who go beneath the surface, do so at their peril.

Know your enemy, know yourself.

Above his desk he tacked a line he remembered from the Persian poet, Rumi: Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I have begun to change myself.

Some things in life just become very clear and we don't need a reason for them at all: I knew at that moment what I'd have to do.

A good novel can be a doorstop to despair.

not many follicles among the oracles.

Men scorn what they don't understand.

No procuro saber las respuestas, procuro comprender las preguntas.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their proper name.

When a wise man points at the moon the imbecile examines the finger.

Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.

A common man marvels at uncommon things. A wise man marvels at the commonplace.

He Who Knows And Knows That He Knows Is A Wise Man - Follow Him; He Who Knows Not And Knows Not That He Knows Not Is A Fool - Shun Him

Knowledge is merely brilliance in organization of ideas and not wisdom. The truly wise person goes beyond knowledge.

You will never know how sharp a sword is unless it's drawn from its sheath