Quotes About Insight

Knowledge is a beautiful thing, but there are a few things I wish I didn't know.

A little knowledge can go a long way.

Behind each biography there should always be a rich treasury of unformulated knowledge, a tapestry that has not been unrolled.

Enlightenment is the culmination of self-knowledge, pure unadulterated knowledge. Not knowledge you can get from reading a book, it comes from perfecting your awareness, your mind.

The process may seem strange and yet it is very true. I did not so much gain the knowledge of things by the words, as words by the experience I had of things.

Wit does not take the place of knowledge.

Half-knowledge is worse than ignorance.

The more I learn about stuff the more conscious I become of grave gaps in my knowledge.

Those who have a tolerable knowledge of human nature will not stand in need of such lights.

I have no use for knowledge that has not been preceded by a sensation

Make yourself a master of perspective, then acquire perfect knowledge of the proportions of men and other animals.

Knowledge is the key to making a difference.

They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

This precept descended from Heaven: know thyself.

Books are fountains of knowledge and also help the heart find the way to use that knowledge with wisdom

Give people knowledge and they really eat it up and they appreciate it a lot and the more that knowledge is made available to people, the more they will utilize it and let it be a part of them.

The spirit needs several sorts of food of which knowledge is only one.

The researcher is more memorable than the researched.

We think by feeling. What is there to know?

To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it.

The volume of Nature is the book of knowledge.

It is hard, but it is excellent, to find the right knowledge of when correction is necessary and when grace doth most avail.

Knowledge is but folly unless it is guided by grace.

Knowledge is pleasure as well as power.