Quotes about Insight
Education stuffs you full of ideas without the coinciding experience that gave rise to those ideas in the first place, giving you incorrect perspective and notions.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education but the means of education.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Some drink from the fountain of knowledge - others just gargle.
— Anonymous
We read fine things but never feel them to the full until we have gone the same steps as the author.
— John Keats
Learn from every mistake because every experience, encounter, and particularly your mistakes are there to teach you and force you into being more who you are.
— Oprah Winfrey
In order to know the light, we must first experience the darkness.
— Carl Jung
Progress comes from the intelligent use of experience.
— Elbert Hubbard
Every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.
— John Keats
Convictions can best be supported with experience and clear thinking.
— Albert Einstein
Of course language is not an infallible guide, but it contains, with all its defects, a good deal of stored insight and experience.
— CS Lewis
Big-picture thinkers broaden their outlook by striving to learn from every experience. They don't rest on their successes, they learn from them.
— John Maxwell
Till old experience do attain To something like prophetic strain.
— John Milton