Quotes About Insight

Study the heart and the mind of man, and begin with your own. Meditation and reflection must lay the foundation of that knowledge, but experience and practice must, and alone can, complete it.

Sometimes a little bit of space is all you need to realize what you truly want.

The only way out of ignorance is awareness for looking the fact.

Ideas, Inspiration, Insights - All of that requires 'I' and an open mind.

Clearly, wisdom requires using self-control to choose to do what is better.

Prudent, cautious self-control, is wisdom's root.

You need to know things the others don't know. It's what no one knows about you that allows you to know yourself.

Experience will help you differentiate what's Right and what's Wrong. And will help you prevent committing mistakes.

It's unbelievable how much you don't know about the game you've been playing all your life.

Ninety percent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtues. Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves.

It is more useful to be aware of a single weakness in oneself than to be aware of a thousand weaknesses in someone else.

It's not that I studied everything in books, I just learned things from my real life experiences. An experience; an asset for learning.

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

Insight doesn't just come naturally; it comes from an accumulation of knowledge and experiences.

He who knows others is learned; he who knows himself is wise.

He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.

A man is never astonished that he doesn't know what another does, but he is surprised at the gross ignorance of the other in not knowing what he does.

Knowing what you don't want can often be more valuable than knowing what you do want.

By gaining self-knowledge we gain the ability to know when to press hard and when to pull back. Self-knowledge informs us of our limits.

He paints for the blind, and we are the blind, and he lets us see for sure what we saw long ago but weren't sure we saw. He paints for the dead, to remind us that - great good God, think of it - we're alive ...

A stupid person laughs three times at a joke; once when everyone else is laughing, a second time when he actually gets the joke, and a third time when he realizes he was laughing without getting the joke at first.

A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.

Most jokes state a bitter truth.

I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.