Quotes About Insight

Clever father, clever daughter; clever mother, clever son.

Boys are perhaps beyond the range of anybody's sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of eighteen months and ninety years.

Spring is sooner recognized by plants than by men.

Fully understanding spoils the story — the best are always translucent.

If man has no tea in him, he is incapable of understanding truth and beauty.

The secret of teaching is to appear to have known all your life what you learned this afternoon.

We can seek, we can find, if we open our minds.

And it is often in the past that the secret of the future lies!

The past does not repeat itself but it often rhymes.

Hindsight — a.k.a. I was a fool, such a fool!

We cannot see time directly but only catch glimpses of its reflections.

Who would regard all things complacently must wink at a great many.

Every man is a damn fool at least ten minutes a day. Wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.

Experience is the father, and memory the mother of wisdom.

This would be a great time in the world for some man to come along that knew something.

Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences...

...wisdom comes by disillusion...

Knowledge is learning something every day. Wisdom is letting go of something every day.

I've only yet to see the apparition of enlightenment, and it always slips past in my periphery.

Faith is like radar which sees through the fog — the reality of things at a distance that the human eye cannot see.

Statistics are like bikinis. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.

The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them.

We all have fog on our path at times — but clarity comes from within.

Every once in a while, turn life over to see what it looks like from the other side.