Quotes About Insight

The most elusive knowledge of all is self-knowledge and it is usually acquired laboriously through experience outside the classroom.

Knowledge is taken from breath, not lives in a book

In the perspective of every person lies a lens through which we may better understand ourselves.

Knowledge of the fact differs from knowledge of the reason for the fact.

When you realize the difference between the container and the content, you will have knowledge.

Nature has given us the seeds of knowledge, not knowledge itself.

What we know is to what we do not know, as a grain of sand is to the beach.

One of the most valuable things any person can learn is the art of using the knowledge and experience of others.

Knowledge is a rare thing -- you gain by giving it away.

An ignorant person is one who doesn't know what you have just found out.

Saying the words that come from knowledge is no sign of having it.

All knowledge is partial, infinitesimally partial. Reason is a net thrown out into an ocean. What truth it brings in is a fragment, a glimpse, a scintillation of the whole truth.

The kind of intelligence a genius has is a different sort of intelligence. The thinking of a genius does not proceed logically. It leaps with great ellipses. It pulls knowledge from God knows where.

The pathway to enlightenment leads to states of ecstasy, knowledge, and a pretty ironic sense of humor.

A wise ignorance is an essential part of knowledge.

How imperfect is all our knowledge!

Sight is the least sensual of all the senses. And we strain ourselves to see, see, see--everything, everything through the eye, inone mode of objective curiosity.

Mathematicians create by acts of insights and intuition. Logic then sanctions the conquests of intuition.

Better know nothing than half-know many things.

A little knowledge OF God is worth more than a great deal of knowledge ABOUT him.

Wisdom sets bounds even to knowledge.

Chess is not only knowledge and logic

When we have passed beyond knowings, then we shall have Knowledge.

Eternal vigilance is the price of knowledge.