Quotes About Insight

We can be knowledgeable with another man's knowledge, but we can't be wise with another man's wisdom.

Experience gives meaning to knowledge.

Knowledge is the best economy we can have.

Nothing is so deceiving as knowledge.

Knowing others is wisdom knowing yourself is Enlightenment.

The deeper interior you have the more you have in your library.

Our vision is often more abstracted by what we think we know than by our lack of knowledge.

Until we can understand the assumptions in which we are drenched we cannot know ourselves.

Experience isn't interesting till it begins to repeat itself-in fact till it does that it hardly is experience.

When a man begins to understand himself he begins to live.

If you do not ask yourself what it is you know you will go on listening to others and change will not come because you will not hear your own truth.

We're drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

As we acquire more knowledge things do not become more comprehensible but more mysterious.

You can live a lifetime and at the end of it know more about other people than you know about yourself.

We owe almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.

Sometimes it is more important to discover what one cannot do than what one can.

Of all the idiots I have met in my life and the Lord knows that they have not been few or little I think that I have been the biggest.

Strange how much you've got to know Before you know how little you know.

I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking what I'm looking at what I see and what it means what I want and what I fear.

I would encourage you: be informed - knowledge is power.

Thales was asked what was most difficult to man he answered: "To know one's self."

Oh wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursels as ithers see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us And foolish notion.

The one who says he doesn't understand anything about art, doesn't know himself.

He has to come to it on his own.