Quotes About Insight

Before we ask God for blessings, let us first ask him for vision.

Deep in our thoughts we find the best of us.

Never let your eyes and your mind to be in the same place.

Never look at nature for the best view only, but also for advice.

Next to the humble man, we find wisdom.

Seek wisdom wherever you are, seek wisdom even in your dreams.

The foolish say you are a fool when you seek help, but the wiser say you are wise.

The only way to gain wisdom, is through loving books.

We accomplish nothing good in life, before we find out who we are.

We are not born with wisdom, but we acquire it by reading books.

Mediocrity does not see higher than itself. But talent instantly recognizes the genius.

You see, but you do not observe.

The mathematics is not there till we put it there.

Há momentos, na vida, em que a sabedoria vem da imaginação e não da prudência.

In dealing with cunning people, we must ever consider their needs to interpret their speeches.

Truth comes out of error more readily than out of confusion.

There is no great concurrence between learning and wisdom

Books speak plain when counselors blanch.

If a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible.

Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial instinct by which you and I size people up.

I keep the subject constantly before me and wait till the first dawnings open little by little into the full light.

Books give not wisdome where none was before, But where some is, there reading makes it more.

My experience of ships is that on them one makes an interesting discovery about the world. One finds one can do without it completely.

Not more knowledge but better use of the knowledge which we now have, is perhaps the main educational need and the main educational problem which confronts us.