Quotes about Insight
Creative thought in science is exactly this - not a mechanical collection on of facts and intuition, bias, and insight from other fields. Science, at its best, interposes human judgement and ingenuity upon all proceedings. It is, after all (although we sometimes forget it), practiced by humans.
— Stephen Jay Gould
Esteem intelligence, cherish knowledge, and value understanding, but trust wisdom.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Knowledge is the eldest daughter of wisdom.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Don't judge a tree by its size, but by its fruit.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Three kinds of people achieve illumination: those who learn, those who teach, and those who do both continuously.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Knowledge is the path, understanding is the way, wisdom is the highway, and enlightenment is the destination.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Wisdom is a great prophet, faith is a great warrior, knowledge is a great sage, and virtue is a great priest.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Faith, hope, love, and insight are the highest achievements of human effort. They are found-given-by experience.
— Carl Jung
Intelligence is the door to freedom and alert attention is the mother of intelligence.
— Jon Kabat-Zinn
but his mouth was that of the just, which bringeth forth wisdom, and whose lips dispense knowledge.
— Jonathan Edwards
He best knows his own heart, and what His own ends and designs were in the wonderful works which He has wrought.
— Jonathan Edwards
Advice is what you ask for when you already know the answer but wish you didn't.
— Erica Jong