Quotes About Insight

Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.

Knowledge come from looking around; wisdom comes from looking up.

In a time of turbulence and change, it is more true than ever that knowledge is power.

Many much-learned men have no intelligence.

It is not healthy to be thinking all the time. Thinking is intended for acquiring knowledge or applying it. It is not essential living.

It takes knowledge to know something. It takes guts to do what you know.

Until they became conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.

We obtain better knowledge of a person during one hour's play and games than by conversing with him for a whole year

If you wish to know yourself observe how others act. If you wish to understand others look into your own heart.

The best prescription is knowledge.

We never understand a thing so well,and make it our own, as when we have discovered it for ourselves.

Fear is a question. What are you afraid of and why? Our fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if we explore them.

They who humble themselves before knowledge of any kind generally end up the wiser and as voices with something meaningful to say.

All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind; the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.

Knowledge without understanding is useless.

Only the knowledge that comes from inside is the real Knowledge

Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world

It's the knowledge derived from information that gives you a competitive edge.

We could all be mediums, and all have absolute knowledge, if the bright light of our ego consciousness would not dim it.

nimelt et eavesdropping, salaja pealtkuulamine, mitte ainult ei ole mõlemas linnas [Cambridge ja Oxford] laialdaselt harrastatud tegevus, vaid oli, on ja jääb parimaks (ehkki algeliseks) vajalike teadmiste kogumise mooduseks, kui ei taheta muutuda autsaideriks, kes midagi ei tea ja kel pole midagi jagada.

Escuchar es lo más peligroso', pensé, 'es saber, es estar enterado y estar al tanto, los oídos carecen de párpados que puedan cerrarse instintivamente a lo pronunciado, no pueden guardarse de lo que se presiente que va a escucharse, siempre es demasiado tarde.

Una novela no sólo cuenta, sino que nos permite asistir a una historia o a unos acontecimientos o a un pensamiento

Pero los sueños, que no siempre son piadosos ni inofensivos, tienen la costumbre de seguir su propio camino y elegir a sus soñantes.

Nosce te ipsum —la corregí, conteniendo otra risotada—. Significa «conócete a ti mismo».