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Quotes About Insight

Knowledge resides in the user and not in the collection. It is how the user reacts to a collection of information that matters.
~ C. West Churchman
Psychological knowledge has made us dull.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
There is an admiration which is the daughter of knowledge.
~ Joseph Joubert
Creativity is the crucial variable in the process of turning knowledge into value
~ John Kao
But in the new (math) approach, the important thing is to understand what you're doing, rather than to get the right answer.
~ Tom Lehrer
Knowledge is our ultimate good.
~ Socrates
Knowledge is never too dear.
~ Francis Walsingham
The real key to health and happiness and success is self knowledge
~ Laozi
What you know is a club for yourself, and what you don't know is a meat-ax for the other fellow.
~ George Horace Lorimer
I have no knowledge other than that gained through my own eyes.
~ Vannoccio Biringuccio
Knowledge is the only elegance.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The first element of change is awareness. You can't change something unless you know it exists.
~ T. Harv Eker
Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.
~ Sydney J. Harris
We tend to use knowledge as therapy.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
We can know nothing of humankind without knowing something of ourselves. Self-knowledge is the property of those people whose passions have their full play, but who ponder over their results.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
To learn by observation is traveling, people must also bring knowledge with them.
~ Bayard Taylor
You can acquire a lot of knowledge without ever going to school.
~ William Glasser
A man who knows he is a fool is not a great fool.
~ Chuang-tzu
Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person.
~ Ethel Watts Mumford
Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.
~ Aldous Huxley
No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
~ Democritus
They knew many things but had no idea why. And strangely this made them more, rather than less, certain that they were right.
~ Neal Stephenson, Anathem
One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
With words at your disposal, you can see more clearly. Finding the words is another step in learning to see.
~ Robin Wall Kimmerer