Quotes About Insight

To the good listener half a word is enough.

Intelligence must follow faith never precede it and never destroy it.

If it were a fact, it wouldn't be called intelligence.

Scuttlebutt is one of the most overlooked acts that can decrease one's sagacity

When criticism doesn't make sense, it is usually coming from a different place.

Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living. The writer experiences everything twice. Once in reality and once in that mirror which waits always before or behind.

For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people.

Kindness in thinking creates profoundness.

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

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

Knowledge is provided but only to those who need to know

Knowledge without action is wastefulness and action without knowledge is foolishness.

Experience is knowledge. All the rest is information.

The ignorant one does not see his ignorance as he basks in its darkness; nor does the knowledgeable one see his own knowledge, for he basks in its light

A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.

Faith moves mountains, but only knowledge moves them to the right place.

There can be no doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.

The purpose of information is not knowledge. It is being able to take the right action.

The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is. Self-knowledge has no end - you don't come to an achievement, you don't come to a conclusion. It is an endless river.

Great advantage is drawn from knowledge of your adversary, and when you know the measure of his intelligence and character, you can use it to play on his weakness.

When you reach the end of what you should know, you will be at the beginning of what you should sense.

Foolish the doctor who despises the knowledge acquired by the ancients.

All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.