Quotes About Insight

Some mathematician, I believe, has said that true pleasure lies not in the discovery of truth, but in the search for it.

Speculation is not knowledge.

Experience is retrospect knowledge.

Adulthood is not an age, but a stage of knowledge of self.

I'm old and my knowledge is strictly horizontal.

To think, it seems to me, is to hold an idea long enough to unlock and shape its power in the varied contexts of shared human knowledge.

The intellect is a cleaver; it discerns and rifts its way into the secrets of things.

We should not confuse information with knowledge.

I actually think there's an incredible amount of self-knowledge that comes with getting older.

Wisdom is the use of knowledge

Knowledge for the sake of understanding, not merely to prevail, that isthe essence of ourbeing.None candefine its limits, or set its ultimate boundaries.

Self knowledge is always bad news.

Particular bits of knowledge are nothing, because they are made up of what Dr. Robert Hutchins once called rapidly aging facts. Principles and method are everything.

He that in ye mine of knowledge deepest diggeth, hath, like every other miner, ye least breathing time, and must sometimes at least come to terr. alt. for air.

All my knowledge comes from research.

You need some knowledge to recognize knowledge, so where does the first knowledge come from?

Sapere aude. Dare to be wise.

The Curse of Knowledge: when we are given knowledge, it is impossible to imagine what it's like to LACK that knowledge.

I like reading books that provide you with knowledge that you previously didn't have. And books you have a chance to grow as a human being after reading them.

Perfect knowledge comes only when you see the world in yourself, just as he who awakes from the dream then knows he saw his dream-world with its suns and stars in himself.

Acquiring knowledge is a form of imitation.

Knowledge is power, and the right knowledge lets man perform miraculous, almost godlike tasks.

The simplest questions are the hardest to answer.

True knowledge consists in knowing things, not words.