Insight Wisdom Quotes

#1. The buddhi [intellect] is today's gain, it is today's experience! Whereas, akkal [insight, wisdom] is a nature's gift!

Dada Bhagwan

#2. But to navigate transformation - genuine transformation that's true to exactly who we are - we must become mindful and attain a clear sense of self. We must take time to be alone with our thoughts and feelings. We must dive into daily practices that help us gather insight, wisdom, and clarity.

Jennifer Grace

#3. Insight is the deep intuitive understanding of things, and it often breaks through the conventional wisdom.

Pearl Zhu

#4. Not only virtue, but also insight, not only sanctity but also wisdom, are the duties and tasks of mankind.

Otto Weininger

#5. Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, wishes. Who looks inside, finds infinite wisdom.

Sereda Aleta Dailey

#6. When we look at the past from beyond the perspective of sadness and error, without judgment, without right or wrong, understanding it was part of our chosen experience, then the past is healed. And by healing I mean that it is seen with wisdom and insight rather than judgment and scorn.

Linda Hoppe

#7. By balancing your breathing, you can control your emotions and calm your mind. From the quiet mind arises the wisdom and insight that help you make good choices.

Ilchi Lee

#8. You are a god wrapped in flesh; the divinity you've always been seeking is wrapped within.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#9. Intelligence and wisdom are certainly compatible, however they are rarely seen in each other's company.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#10. The multidimensional digital effects provide impressive advantages in terms of the speed of delivery, the quality of information for decision making, and the wisdom of digital workforce.

Pearl Zhu

#11. Knowledge is wisdom that comes from acquiring truth. Insight is wisdom that comes from living out the truth we acquire. Discernment is wisdom that comes from the Holy Spirit's reminders of that knowledge and insight.

Lysa TerKeurst

#12. Still, it makes sense that his insight echoes through my soul when I'm teetering at the edge of insecurity, considering he's Wonderland's wisdom keeper, the custodian of all things mad and daring.

A.G. Howard

#13. You cannot transmit wisdom and insight to another person. The seed is already there. A good teacher touches the seed, allowing it to wake up, to sprout, and to grow.

Nhat Hanh

#14. You can always tell the heart of man by what he do, and by what he don't do ...

Steven J. Carroll

#15. The will of God, the creator and ruler of the universe, embraces all possible wills, His own as well as that of every man born into this world. If this is so, intervened Jesus with sudden insight, then each man is a part of God.

Jose Saramago

#16. As a dreamer, you're inevitably called to dream yourself awake using the full resources of your imagination and heart. You may have buried or repressed your season of insight, but it happened, and now you are irrevocably changed.

Carolyn Elliott

#17. If God the Father and God the Son use light, knowledge, insight, understanding and wisdom to function on the earth, it means that is the greatest power in existence.

Sunday Adelaja

#18. Don't allow yourself to be fooled by how "nice" a person appears to be, measure a person's virtuousness by the way in which they treat others with their words and actions .

Miya Yamanouchi

#19. I never realized it was all a game,
until I started winning.

Eric Micha'el Leventhal

#20. A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and
understanding.

Marshall McLuhan

#21. Each day hands me a clean sheet of paper upon which to write. Therefore, I would be wise to write without ever having the need to erase.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#22. (T)here are friendships in this world that seem incomprehensible to ordinary people, but are in fact conduits to deeper wisdom and insight.

Elif Shafak

#23. Self examination is the key to insight, which is the key to wisdom

M. Scott Peck

#24. When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.

Socrates

#25. The gift of biblical wisdom, in other words, is not all about getting a privileged seat in God's traffic control tower of the world. We don't get to understand why things happen the way they do. We are mistaken if we think wisdom gives us that sort of insight.

Jeffrey Meyers

#26. Before knowing the truth, if you depend on your intelligence, you can be misled completely. Intelligence that is without the spiritual insight is your own ego. After Realization, the truth that comes to you is the real, pure truth and is not your ego.

Nirmala Srivastava

#27. I want to 'think' that I have all the answers. But if I 'think', I soon realize that what I thought to be answers were guesses. And if I 'think' yet again, I begin to realize that since God has all the answers He never hands me a guess.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#28. There's a fine line between career criminals and career professionals because most of us fall somewhere in between.

Samantha Leahy

#29. Taking the Bible too literally is a mistake. It should be read as a guidebook of wisdom and insight.

A. J. Jacobs

#30. Time-honoured insights are often trivialised as cliches.

Densey Clyne

#31. Too, if you're a true contemplative, your life and words will overflow with spiritual wisdom, compassion, and fruitful insight, because you're sure to measure out what you say carefully and calmly, eschewing lies and speaking without the shrill pretense of hypocrites.

Anonymous

#32. At some point I hope to have grown sufficiently in both stature and wisdom to understand that I cannot deliver myself from myself, and that God alone can save me from me.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#33. Whenever God wants to intervene in the affairs of the earth, he intervenes through light, illumination, knowledge, insight, understanding, wisdom

Sunday Adelaja

#34. Understanding is to knowledge what the flesh is to the body. Insight is to wisdom what life is to the soul.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#35. O Allah! If I cannot always understand Your wisdom in what You decree, please let me at least have the insight to accept it and be content with it.

Salman Al-Ouda

#36. Remaining quiet is what is called wisdom-insight. To remain quiet is to resolve the mind in the Self. Telepathy, knowing past, present and future happenings and clairvoyance do not constitute wisdom-insight.

Ramana Maharshi

#37. Adversity tries You Before it tries the rest

Irfan Ishaq

#38. What you don't deal with today, will live to deal with tomorrow.

Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

#39. You've got to believe beyond a shadow of a doubt that you have what it takes. God created you to excel, and He's given you ability, insight, talent, wisdom, and His supernatural power to do so.

Joel Osteen

#40. I would rather be able to appreciate things I cannot have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.

Elbert Hubbard

#41. Life in illusion is in a transient belief on insight without perspective

Farley Maglaya

#42. One of the best introductions to the history and ideas of Calvinism, packed with insight and wisdom.

Alister E. McGrath

#43. Protection, as we use the word in Buddhism, is actually wisdom, it's insight. Protection is seeing and knowing deeply that all things in our experience arise due to causes, due to conditions coming together in a certain way.

Sharon Salzberg

#44. Stop your ignorance! Seek for wisdom and give understanding a way!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#45. The idea of authority, which they represented, was associated in our minds with a greater insight and a more humane wisdom.

Erich Maria Remarque

#46. Unlike information, it cannot be dispensed via blogs and Internet chatter. Since we are drowning in an ocean of information, the most precious commodity in modern society is wisdom. Without wisdom and insight, we are left to drift aimlessly and without purpose

Anonymous

#47. Seeing your own smallness is called insight
Honoring your own tenderness is called strength

Jonathan Star

#48. Your relationship with others is your relationship to yourself mirrored back to you.

Renae A. Sauter

#49. Light means knowledge in the Greek language it can also be translated as illumination, knowledge, insight, understanding and wisdom

Sunday Adelaja

#50. For all its complexity, however, astrology remains fundamentally simple. It offers a time-honored system of symbols that sum up key aspects of human life while providing profound insights and practical guidance.

Anne M. Nordhaus-Bike

#51. I look upon the pleasure which we take in a garden as one of the most innocent delights in human life ... It gives us a great insight into the contrivance and wisdom of Nature, and suggests innumerable subjects for meditation.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#52. Some blind faithfully; some see.

T.F. Hodge

#53. You can't be conferred with a glory you never configured your mind to come to.

Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

#54. And, to be true, an enemy's lair is an enemy's lair, no matter how comfortable or fancy it might appear.

Steven J. Carroll

#55. A wise person is able to bring down a thousand armies with a single insight; with wisdom he successfully engages ten thousand armies with just one.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#56. Jesus also function on the earth through the power of light. Light, illumination, knowledge, insight, understanding, wisdom. That is their real power on earth.

Sunday Adelaja

#57. Any teacher can study books, but books do not necessarily bring wisdom, nor that human insight essential to consummate teaching skills.

Bliss Perry

#58. We can have all the food and water we need, but without the sustenance of
real story, real art - without the wisdom, insight, and "life instruction" it brings - we will stagnate as a culture and become a swamp where quality life can no longer be sustained. So share your gifts! Share your art!

Derek Rydall

#59. Aunty, whatever the matter, just remember that it is the same moon that wanes today that will be full tomorrow. And even the sun, however long it disappears, it always shines again.

Chinelo Okparanta

#60. You don't create your thoughts, but you choose your thoughts. To pick the right thoughts at a right time is what wisdom is all about.

Roshan Sharma

#61. Proverbs 21:30 (NIV). There is no wisdom, no insight, no plan that can succeed against the LORD ...

Anonymous

#62. George Sears, called Nessmuk, whose "Woodcraft," published in 1884, was the first American book on forest camping, and is written with so much wisdom, wit, and insight that it makes Henry David Thoreau seem alien, humorless, and French.

John McPhee

#63. To discover the source of this alchemical love within is to uncover the deepest secrets of the soul. It is to unearth and align with the ultimate truth of who we are.

Atalina Wright

#64. Look to see who is truly serving the world, truly seeking to share wisdom and knowledge, insight and understanding, caring and compassion. Provide for those people, and provide grandly. Pay them the highest honor. Give them the largest amount. For these are the Bringers of the Light.

Neale Donald Walsch

#65. I've gained no wisdom, no insight, no mellowing. I would make all the same mistakes again, today.

Woody Allen

#66. You have to learn where your weaknesses end and your strengths starts or you will spend your life focusing on all that falls apart.

Nikki Rowe

#67. As child, when the elders spoke their wise words, it only echoes in my ears. As adult, I have crystal clear insight to the wise aphorisms by the elderly.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#68. When you look in the mirror and see your reflection, your eyes are open; when you look in the mirror and see God, your soul is open.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#69. God grant to all of us the power and strength to be people of integrity, and the insight and wisdom to avoid being led into the snares of the dishonest.

Marvin J. Ashton

#70. Those who understand will understand.

Wayne Gerard Trotman

#71. The perishableness of life ... imparts value, dignity, interest to life.

Thomas Mann

#72. The most beautiful temple in the universe is your soul; that is why God wants to dwell in it.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#73. Stillness, insight, and wisdom arise only when we can settle into being complete in this moment, without having to seek or hold on to or reject anything.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

#74. The problem of knowledge is that there are many more books on birds written by ornithologists than books on birds written by birds and books on ornithologists written by birds

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#75. Every work [of literature] has both a situation and a story. The situation is the context or circumstance, sometimes the plot; the story is the emotional experience that preoccupies the writer: the insight, the wisdom, the thing one has come to say

Vivian Gornick

#76. Life can only be experienced in myriad of intricate forms, but can be understood only in abstract.
Here/Now/Present is the doorway to abstract - the divine nothingness

Rashmit Kalra

#77. Some look at life, for their entire life, before they actually see.

Nikki Rowe

#78. Amidst such Soulful exploration each passage - is given new meaning, wisdom & insight.

Eleesha