Quotes About Insight

All, everything that I understand, I only understand because I love."

"The dog is the only animal that has seen his god."

The way of the warrior does not include other ways…but if you know the way broadly you will see it in everything.

I learned many life lessons from watching my big sister make mistakes!

"…true love is never blind, but rather brings an added light."

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it.

Wisdom begins in wonder.

Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.

Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.

I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.

A novel must show how the world truly is. Somehow, reveals the true source of our actions.

We judge so superficially of things, that common words and actions spoke and done in an agreeable manner, with some knowledge of what passes in the world, often succeed beyond the greatest ability.

Empathy is cloaked in our actions - as in, we might be experiencing empathy but not realize it's empathy.

The nearest anyone can come to finding himself at any given age is to find a story that somehow tells him about himself.

I am not young enough to know everything.

It is the greatest truth of our age: Information is not knowledge.

In the last few years everything I'd done up to sixty or so has seemed very childish.

My eyes have seen much, but they are not weary. My ears have heard much, but they thirst for more.

I don't think I've gotten any smarter, but your reflexes slow down before you do something stupid when you're older.

Every age has its massive moral blind spots. We might not see them, but our children will.

Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed.