Quotes about Insight

Everything you and I will ever have will come to us as the result of the way we use our minds, the one thing we possess that makes us different from all other creatures.

Actually, it isn't a secret at all. It was first promulgated by some of the earliest wise men, and it appears again and again throughout the Bible. But very few people have learned it or understand it. That's why it's strange, and why for some equally strange reason it virtually remains a secret.

Ideas carried out stimulate more ideas.

Oliver Wendell Holmes once attended a meeting in which he was the shortest man present. "Dr. Holmes," quipped a friend, "I should think you'd feel rather small among us big fellows." "I do," retorted Holmes, "I feel like a dime among a lot of pennies."

If thou seest a man of understanding, get thee betimes unto him, and let thy foot wear the steps of his door.

In much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.

None are so blind as those who will not see.

Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment.

I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee.

But where shall wisdom be found? and where is the place of understanding?

With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding.

Immediately there fell from his eyes as it had been scales.