Quotes About Insight

Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom.

The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.

Poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history.

No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.

Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Al retirarse la marea, como suele decir Warren Buffett, se ve quién estaba nadando desnudo y quién no.

Non c'è nessun libro così cattivo che non abbia in sé qualcosa di buono.

He picked something out of everything he read.

There is no book so bad it does not contain something good.

He [Pliny the Elder] used to say that "no book was so bad but some good might be got out of it."

The master's eye is the best fertilizer.

Pliny the Elder] used to say that "no book was so bad but some good might be got out of it.

Nullus est liber tam malus ut non aliqua parte prosit - There is no book so bad that it is not profitable on some part.

All things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.

He who has not even a knowledge of common things is a brute among men. He who has an accurate knowledge of human concerns alone, is a man among brutes. But he who knows all that can be known by intellectual energy is a God among men.

you have to have unhappiness to know what happiness is.

The process may seem strange and yet it is very true. I did not so much gain the knowledge of things by the words, as words by the experience I had of things.

take care, in reading the writings of philosophers or hearing their speeches, that you do not attend to words more than things, nor get attracted more by what is difficult and curious than by what is serviceable and solid and useful.

if the "Know thyself" of the oracle were an easy thing for every man, it would not be held to be a divine injunction.

Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.

To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.

A guest sees more in an hour than the host in a year.

We read a lot of books. Children's books mostly, because they're always much more truthful than adult books. And much more entertaining," said Mrs. Bunny.

All my life I had wanted to travel but what I discovered that year was that the things that you find out become the places that you go and sometimes you find them out by being jettisoned off alone and other times it is the people who choose to stand by your side who give you the clues. But the important things that happen to you will happen to you even in the smallest places...