Quotes About Insight

If life has taught me anything, it's don't ever assume. Nail it down. Get things clear.

How terrible-- to see the truth when the truth is only pain to him who sees!

Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

There is no happiness where there is no wisdom...

Oh it's terrible when the one who does the judging judges things all wrong.

Those who jump to conclusions may go wrong.

Always desire to learn something useful.

Cling not to one mood, And deemed not thou art right, all others wrong. For whoso thinks that wisdom dwells with him, That he alone can speak or think alright, Such oracles are empty breath when tried. The wisest man will let himself be swayed By other's wisdom and relax in time.

It is but sorrow to be wise when wisdom profits not.

TEIRESIAS: Alas, how terrible is wisdom when it brings no profit to the man that's wise! This I knew well, but had forgotten it, else I would not have come here.

You, you'll see no more the pain I suffered, all the pain I caused! Too long you looked on the ones you never should have seen, blind to the ones you longed to see, to know! Blind from this hour on! Blind in the darkness-blind!

TEIRESIAS: You have your eyes but see not where you are in sin, nor where you live, nor whom you live with. Do you know who your parents are? Unknowing you are enemy to kith and kin in death, beneath the earth, and in this life.

But if I am young, thou shouldest look to my merits, not to my years.

Alas! how terrible it is to know, Where no good comes of knowing!

Oft we know not till we see. Weak is human prophecy. Judge not, till the hour have taught thee What the destinies have brought thee.

Ah! terrible is knowledge to the man Whom knowledge profits not.

What men have seen they know;             but what shall come hereafter             no man before the event can see, 1420    nor what end waits for him.

Of happiness the chiefest part IS a wise heart

How terrible—to see the truth when the truth is only pain to him who sees! I knew it well, but I put it from my mind, else I never would have come.

Indeed, if the truth has any power.

You with your precious eyes, you're blind to the corruption of your life

But now I have a right to learn from you as you just learned from me.

Time alone can bring the just man to light— the criminal you can spot in one short day.

I have a terrible fear the blind seer can see.