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Quotes About Insight

Seeing depends on knowledge / And knowledge, of course, on your college / But when you are erudite and wise / What matters is to use your eyes.
~ Ernst Gombrich
It is not so important to know everything as to know the exact value of everything, to appreciate what we learn and to arrange what we know.
~ Hannah More
College is like a fountain of knowledge - and the students are there to drink
~ Chuck Palahniuk
From whatever you wish to know and measure you must take your leave, at least for a time. Only when you have left the town can yousee how high its towers rise above the houses.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Information is bad for knowledge.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
in much knowledge there is also much grief.
~ Marie of Romania
And the quality of good judgement is clearly a form of knowledge and skill, as it is because of knowledge and not because of ignorance that we judge well.
~ Plato
True knowledge comes with deep understanding of a topic and its inner workings.
~ Albert Einstein
I set out to discover the why of it, and to transform my pleasure into knowledge.
~ Charles Baudelaire
Of course. You get everything from books.
~ Gregory Maguire, Out of Oz
Shall I tell you what knowledge is? It is to know both what one knows and what one does not know.
~ Confucius
What is not fully understood is not possessed.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
There is, it seems to us, At best, only a limited value In the knowledge derived from experience.
~ T. S. Eliot
The knowledge of your destiny is available to you, well before it actually happens, as a message streaming continuously from your heart to your brain, written in the language of longing.
~ Martha Beck
Bewilderment is the true comprehension. Not to know where you are going is the true knowledge.
~ Martin Luther
Intuitive design happens when current knowledge is the same as the target knowledge.
~ Jared Spool
Look for knowledge not in books but in things themselves.
~ William Gilbert
Knowledge for a warrior is something that comes at once, engulfs him, and passes on
~ Carlos Castaneda
The heavens and the earth, the woods and the wayside, teem with instruction and knowledge to the curious and thoughtful.
~ Hosea Ballou
Knowledge of the world means dissolving the solidity of the world.
~ Italo Calvino
It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing.
~ Tom Stoppard
The indicator of true knowledge is the ability to differentiate what uplifts us from what pulls us down.
~ Mata Amritanandamayi
The real reason for a quest is always self-knowledge.
~ Thomas C Foster
Knowledge is awareness, and to it there are many paths, not all of them paved with logic.
~ Louis L'Amour