Quotes About Insight

To know all, it is necessary to know very little; but to know that very little, one must first know pretty much.

We like to learn all we need from earlier generations, but we have to find out for ourselves what we need; nobody else can do that for us.

Knowledge must come through action.

The mind is like a sponge, soaking up endless drops of knowledge.

Forecasters tend to learn less and less about more and more, until in the end they know nothing about everything.

In the world of knowledge, the idea of good appears last of all, and is seen only with effort.

He who binds His soul to knowledge, steals the key of heaven.

In every object there is inexhaustible meaning; the eye sees in it what the eye brings means of seeing.

To know things as they are is better than to believe things as they seem.

Wir mussen wissen. Wir werden wissen. We must know. We will know. Inscribed on his tomb in Gilttingen.

Knowledge is a mimic creation.

Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two.

If we extend our senses, we will consequently extend our knowledge.

The authentic insight and experience of any human soul, were it but insight and experience in hewing of wood and drawing of water, is real knowledge, a real possession and acquirement.

And what word is knowledge but a shadow of wordless knowledge?

When knowledge is missing all other attributes have no grooves in which to rest.

People tell me this is obvious. But it's ok to be obvious. Knowing and doing are different. Many people know many obvious things they completely fail to do, despite their knowledge.

The only journey of knowledge is from the depth of one being to the heart of another.

It is never wise to turn aside from knowing, however the knowing comes.

The most that any of us know, is the least of that which is to be known.

It is just as important to make knowledge live and keep it alive as to solve specific problems.

Sometimes, we just don't know enough about what we are trying to achieve.

If we look at the realm of knowledge, how exceedingly small and limited is that part acquired through our own senses; how wide is that we gain from other sources.

In their different ways, art and philosophy help us, in Schopenhauer's words, to turn pain into knowledge.