Wisdom & Insight Quotes

I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.

Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.

Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.

Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise.

Patience is the companion of wisdom.

Wisdom is important in every man's life.

Wisdom is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.

Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.

Knowledge is the consequence of time, and multitude of days are fittest to teach wisdom.

Wisdom cannot come by railroad or automobile or aeroplane, or be hurried up by telegraph or telephone.

To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two. A constant coming and going: wisdom lies in the momentary.

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.

Wisdom comes out of dialogue so you have to develop the capacity to expose your own ignorance in order that they may discover their own wisdom.

Wisdom may best arise from a humbling reality.

The intellect of the wise is like glass; it admits the light of heaven and reflects it.

Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.

The best vision is insight.

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.

To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.

Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.

A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.

The clouds may drop down titles and estates, and wealth may seek us, but wisdom must be sought.

Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.

Turn your wounds into wisdom.

Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequences of human values.

Wisdom is learned through experience, and sometimes experience is hard and bitter.

Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.

Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Knowledge is marvelous, but wisdom is even better.

Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.

Man is wise and constantly in quest of more wisdom; but the ultimate wisdom, which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls forth faith rather than reason.

The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.

Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.

Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.

Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations.

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.

Kindness is wisdom.

Discipline is wisdom and vice versa.

Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.

A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.

Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.

Wisdom is a sacred communion.

Wisdom is keeping a sense of fallibility of all our views and opinions.

Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.

For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.

The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practiced, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good.

We all admire the wisdom of people who come to us for advice.

Wisdom is not acquired save as the result of investigation.

Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry.

Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.

Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.

Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man.

Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.