Quotes About Insight

I'm never surprised, even when I am...

You learn more from ten days of agony than from ten years of content.

Idiots and lunatics see only their own wit.

Every time I was ever a fool, I was always the last one to figure it out.

I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me.

Beauty comes as much from the mind as from the eye.

I was made at right angles to the world and I see it so. I can only see it so.

You can't even recognize the traps for mistakes that you've made before if you don't self-evaluate.

He who knows himself knows others.

The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself.

Collect as precious pearls the words of the wise and virtuous.

Yes, know thyself: in great concerns or small, Be this thy care, for this, my friend, is all.

There is a great difference between being born wise and only looking it.

Self-knowledge is the beginning of self-improvement.

All men have the capacity of knowing themselves and acting with moderation.

It is wisdom to know others; It is enlightenment to know one's self.

Observe all men; thy self most.

No man is the worse for knowing the worst of himself.

The high peak of knowledge is perfect self-knowledge.

Through suffering comes wisdom.

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

In order to understand others, you must understand yourself first.

Remember all the answers you need are inside of you. You only have to become quiet enough to hear them.

Insight doesn't necessarily produce self-control. Sometimes you just see your destructiveness more clearly.