Quotes About Insight

pay attention to your enemies, for they are the first to discover your mistakes.

We should become self-aware: We should observe ourselves as we go about our daily business, and we should periodically reflect on how we responded to the day's events. How did we respond to an insult? To the loss of a possession? To a stressful situation? Did we, in our responses, put Stoic psychological strategies to work? •

It is a great evil to look upon mankind with too clear vision. You seem to be living among wild beasts, and you become a wild beast yourself. (""The Story of Prince Alasi and the Princess Firouzkah")

All real education is the architecture of the soul.

But if ever there was an argument to be made for the complex, it was sitting before him at this very moment.

To generalize is to be an idiot. To particularize is the alone distinction of merit. General knowledge are those knowledge that idiots possess.

The road to excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

To generalize is to be an idiot. To particularize is the alone distinction of merit—general knowledges are those knowledges that idiots possess.

To generalize is to be an idiot.

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

The ablest diplomat will never boast of understanding a man, but only his intentions.

I have often wondered how anyone who does not read, by which I mean daily, having some book going all the time, can make it through life.

If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.

An old man's eagle mind.

We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason outselves into it.

We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.

Proper recitation of the Qur'an opens up the reader to new meanings at every reading. "When meaning repeats itself for someone who is reciting the Qur'an, he has not recited it as it should be recited. This is proof of his ignorance" (F. IV

It is the business of a comic poet to paint the vices and follies of human kind.

No, I'm no enemy to learning it hurts not me.

Knowledge and Wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connexion, Knowledge dwells in heads replete with thoughts of other men, Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.

Knowledge is proud that it knows so much wisdom is humble that it knows no more.

Knowledge is proud that he has learn'd so much; Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.

Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.

Here the heartMay give a useful lesson to the head,And Learning wiser grow without his books.