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Quotes About Insight

Knowledge, idea, belief stands in the way of wisdom.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
I am a man who knows nothing, guesses sometimes, finds frequently and who's always amazed.
~ Villiers de L'Isle-Adam
All our knowledge brings us nearer to our ignorance.
~ T.S. Eliot
Information is acquired by being told, whereas knowledge can be acquired by thinking.
~ Fritz Machlup
Gain knowledge. It's valuable.
~ Daniel Norris
Knowledge is a sacred cow, and my problem will be how we can milk her while keeping clear of her horns.
~ Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
In brief, the function of knowledge is to make one experience freely available to other experiences.
~ John Dewey
Dreams are a reservoir of knowledge and experience
~ Tarthang Tulku
A great many people mistake opinions for thoughts.
~ Herbert V. Prochnow
A knowledge of thyself will preserve thee from vanity.
~ Miguel de Cervantes
The important things usually prove to be very simple. They are also open secrets in the sense that no one is hiding the knowledge from us except ourselves.
~ Robert Moss
Education does not mean the imparting of verbal knowledge alone.
~ Sai Baba
If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me.
~ William Shakespeare
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
~ Plato
Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it.
~ Baruch Spinoza, Ethics
Someone said, 'The dead writers are remote from us because we know so much more than they did.' Precisely, and they are that which we know.
~ T.S. Eliot, Selected Essays
Nothing is more beautiful than to know all.
~ Athanasius Kircher
Every thing in this world, said my father, is big with jest,--and has wit in it, and instruction too,--if we can but find it out.
~ Laurence Sterne
Imagination is not enough. Knowledge is necessary.
~ Paul Scott
Knowledge is the eye which must direct the foot of obedience.
~ Thomas Watson
Information can perhaps be useful as a support-stick and help you cross the way... but if you want to find your way in the darkness, only knowledge can forge that path for you... only knowledge.
~ Narendra Modi
In the fields with which we are concerned, knowledge comes only in flashes. The text is the thunder rolling long afterward.
~ WALTER BENJAMIN
Thou learnest no secret until thou knowest friendship, since to the unsound no heavenly knowledge enters.
~ Hafez
It is from the scope and wisdom of the economists of the past that we must reap the knowledge with which to face the future.
~ Robert Heilbroner