Quotes about Insight
Her simplicity fathomed what clever people falsified.
— Virginia Woolf
Suffering is wisdom's school teacher.
— Lauren Kate
When intelligence shuts a door, wisdom opens a window.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Timeless wisdom brings timeless blessings.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Calling the cat stupid never made the mice wise.
— Marty Rubin
An ounce of wisdom can prevent a pound of folly.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Why does Samuel Butler say, 'Wise men never say what they think of women'? Wise men never say anything else apparently.
— Virginia Woolf
As to methods, there may be a million and then some, but principles are few. The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
If men had wings and bore black feathers, Few of them would be clever enough to be crows.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Stupidity often saves a man from going mad.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
In every man there is something wherein I may learn of him, and in that I am his pupil.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Everywhere the flower of obedience is intelligence. Obey a man with cordial loyalty and you will understand him.
— Phillips Brooks