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Quotes About Insight

True knowledge is knowledge of why things are as they are, and not merely what they are.
~ Isaiah Berlin
Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.
~ C.G. Jung
Experience alone does not create knowledge.
~ Kurt Lewin
Ignorance is never better than knowledge
~ Enrico Fermi
Ideas are everywhere, but knowledge is rare.
~ Thomas Sowell
But the upside of painful knowledge is so much greater than the downside of blissful ignorance.
~ Sheryl Sandberg
It is what we think we know that keeps us from learning.
~ Chester I. Barnard
They know enough who know how to learn.
~ Henry Adams
Opinion is usually something which people have when they lack comprehensive information.
~ Idries Shah, Reflections
An accurate knowledge of the past of a country is necessary for everyone who would understand its present, and who desires to judge of its future.
~ Annie Besant
Knowledge is of more value than gold
~ Solomon
When you are ignorant about something, to know that you are ignorant about it - that is knowledge.
~ Confucius
Let us enter into the house of knowledge of ourselves.
~ St. Catherine of Siena
All types of knowledge, ultimately mean self knowledge.
~ Bruce Lee
Few can tell what they know without also showing what they do not know.
~ Ivan Panin
The more you learn, the more you have a framework that the knowledge fits into.
~ Bill Gates
That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
Fullness of knowledge always and necessarily means some understanding of the depths of our ignorance, and that is always conducive to both humility and reverence.
~ Robert Andrews Millikan
You cannot judge any man beyond your knowledge of him, and how small is your knowledge.
~ Kahlil Gibran, Sand and Foam
Knowledge without mileage equals bullshit.
~ Henry Rollins
Those who understand others are clever, those who understand themselves are wise.
~ Laozi
Know thyself. [Lat., Ne quis nimis. (From the Greek)]
~ Solon
All our knowledge is the offspring of our perceptions.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
He knows the universe and does not know himself.
~ Jean de La Fontaine