Quotes About Insight

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Meditation is the soul's perspective glass.

A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.

Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.

We get wise by asking questions, and even if these are not answered, we get wise, for a well-packed question carries its answer on its back as a snail carries its shell.

Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.

Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.

The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense.

Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise.

Poverty makes you wise but it's a curse.

Since Socrates and Plato first speculated on the nature of the human mind, serious thinkers through the ages - from Aristotle to Descartes, from Aeschylus to Strindberg and Ingmar Bergman - have thought it wise to understand oneself and one's behavior.

Our lady the Common Law is a very wise old lady though she still has something to learn in telling what she knows.

The wise does at once what the fool does at last.

I'm not really wise. But I can be cranky.

The two big advantages I had at birth were to have been born wise and to have been born in poverty.

When we looked at the life cycle in our 40s, we looked to old people for wisdom. At 80, though, we look at other 80-year-olds to see who got wise and who not. Lots of old people don't get wise, but you don't get wise unless you age.

The wise make proverbs, and fools repeat them.

He whose wisdom cannot help him, gets no good from being wise.

Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn't always have to be their top priority.

Our greatest stupidities may be very wise.

The lips of the wise are as the doors of a cabinet; no sooner are they opened, but treasures are poured out before thee.

Wise is the man who does not disdain any character and instead, examining him with a searching look, plumbs him to the very main-springs of his being.

Now the reason the enlightened prince and the wise general conquer the enemy whenever they move and their achievements surpass those of ordinary men is foreknowledge.