Quotes About Insight

A wise man will take a woman's advice even if he doesn't understand it.

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself a fool.

A wise man has to know his limitations. I figured that out pretty quickly.

He was a wise man who originated the idea of God.

It takes a very wise man to act the fool.

Wise men make more opportunities than they find.

Kings may be judges of the earth, but wise men are the judges of kings.

We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.

My function as a writer is to provide an atmosphere in which people can think wisely about what we're doing on this planet.

We shall not grow wiser before we learn that much that we have done was very foolish.

The price of wisdom is innocence. So, I have definitely become wiser but sadly a little less innocent.

I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.

Of course fear does not automatically lead to courage. Injury does not necessarily lead to insight. Hardship will not automatically make us better. Pain can break us or make us wiser. Suffering can destroy us or make us stronger. Fear can cripple us, or it can make us more courageous. It is resilience that makes the difference.

Like Odysseus, the President looked wiser when he was seated.

He that never changes his opinion never corrects mistakes and will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.

Sometimes dreams are wiser than waking.

He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book.

I'm just getting wiser as I get older.

When you get a little older you get a little wiser.

I know more about what it's like to be elderly and infirm and kind of stupid, the way you get forgetful, but on the other hand I'm a littler, wiser, dare we say? The word 'wisdom' has kind of faded out of our vocabulary, but yeah, I'm a little wiser.

You get to be wiser by storying the world and seeing it through other forms of consciousness than your own.

I think I've got wiser.

I think experience is vital for that. You become wiser: you know where to be, what positions to take up, how to play it.

People are wiser than we are willing to attribute to them.