Quotes About Insight

Most books are about aspects of human knowledge - Few people write books about human ignorance, despite the fact that there would be much more to write about

If self-knowledge is the road to virtue, so is virtue still more the road to self-knowledge.

Being a TV comedian, actor, writer, columnist, and all that is quite helpful to me in acquiring wide varieties of knowledge, which is crucial for filmmaking.

Rational confidence [is] the just result of knowledge and experience.

It is necessary, in order to know things well, to know the particulars of them; and these, being infinite, make our knowledge eversuperficial and imperfect.

The true knowledge is not in the things, but in finding the connections between the things.

You should have a fund of knowledge of something and out of that you make up you mind.

One cannot come back too often to the question what is knowledge and to the answer knowledge is what one knows.... Knowledge is the thing you know and how can you know more than you do know.

I think it's increasingly hard to have deep self-knowledge without entering the darkness in some way.

There is no more merit in being able to attach a correct description to a picture than in being able to find out what is wrong with a stalled motorcar. In each case it is special knowledge.

Knowledge of the Bible never comes by intuition.

It is not often that any man can have so much knowledge of another, as is necessary to make instruction useful.

What I sell is the higher knowledge of knowing whats next and not following the trend of whats now.

The only use of knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present.

Mythology is a vast body of knowledge that has not been tapped.

...wisdom is in large part the knowledge of how to avoid doing dumb things, and thus grows globally as a function of the published inventory of stupid mistakes.

We know more from nature than we can at will communicate.

Hillary Clinton has a vision, she has knowledge and judgment. She is a strategic thinker, based on her experience and her connection.

Knowledge was like a mouthful of dust.

Do not place the words of ANYONE above the feelings of your own being. You can learn much from others, but the deepest knowledge must come from within yourself.

Infinite toil would not enable you to sweep away a mist; but by ascending a little you may often look over it altogether.

Knowledge has organizing power inherit in it. It is simply enough to know.

I have met a thousand scamps; but I never met one who considered himself so. Self-knowledge isn't so common.

Knowledge always liberates.