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Quotes About Insight

Know what you do not know.
~ Gautama Buddha
The main fuel to speed the world's progress is our stock of knowledge, and the brake is our lack of imagination.
~ Julian Simon
You know nothing till you know all; which is the reason we never know any thing.
~ Herman Melville
The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.
~ Aldous Huxley
Knowledge will not always take the place of simple observation.
~ Arnold Lobel
Knowing that you do not know is the best. Not knowing that you do not know is an illness.
~ Laozi
I know somewhat too much; and from this knowledge, once one has been infected, there seems to be no recovering.
~ J. M. Coetzee
All knowledge leads to self-knowledge.
~ Bruce Lee
Love is subsequent to knowledge and to the thing known, for nothing unknown is loved.
~ Nicholas of Cusa
Knowledge is love and light and vision.
~ Helen Keller
Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.
~ Audre Lorde
Understanding means throwing away your knowledge.
~ Nhat Hanh
Education is not the accumulation of knowledge, but the ability to find it.
~ Louis Nizer
To know that you do not know is the best. To pretend to know when you do not know is a disease.
~ Laozi
The gift of knowledge is the highest gift in the world.
~ Swami Vivekananda
Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Information is not knowledge.
~ Albert Einstein
I know more than I can express in words, and the little I can express would not have been expressed, had I not known more.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Between us, we cover all knowledge; he knows all that can be known and I know the rest.
~ Mark Twain
Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself.
~ Alan Watts
Without knowledge and understanding, one tends to become a passive spectator rather than an active participant in the great decisions of our time.
~ Diane Ravitch
True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.
~ Baltasar Gracian
Knowledge is constructed, not transferred
~ Peter Senge
In completing one discovery we never fail to get an imperfect knowledge of others of which we could have no idea before, so that we cannot solve one doubt without creating several new ones.
~ Joseph Priestley