Insightful Thinking Quotes

Ignorance never settles a question.

Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.

I've got research, I have my own life experience I can apply, and I have my imagination.

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.

The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool.

My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane.

Remember: You are the common denominator in all your relationship problems. Wherever you go, your pesky repeated issues go - until you shed a blazing light of insight upon them.

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.

There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.

Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.

Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.

Analysis brings no curative powers in its train; it merely makes us conscious of the existence of an evil, which, oddly enough, is consciousness.

An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.

A smart man makes a mistake, learns from it, and never makes that mistake again. But a wise man finds a smart man and learns from him how to avoid the mistake altogether.

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Take ye counsel together in all matters, inasmuch as consultation is the lamp of guidance which leadeth the way, and is the bestower of understanding.

Intelligence divorced from judgment produces nothing but foolishness.

I simply think things through, and I look at problems. One thing I pride myself on is the ability to connect unconnected thoughts and come up with new, unique thoughts.

Wonder is the desire for knowledge.

Holmes serves as an ideal model of how we can learn to see and think better.

Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.

Curiosity killed the cat, but where human beings are concerned, the only thing a healthy curiosity can kill is ignorance.

Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.

It's amazing to me: when people start their career, you write about maybe a couple of topics, and you find that as you grow older, a lot of those topics never resolve, because I think your job as a writer is to pose questions as you see them. I don't know if we're supposed to give answers to people, because I don't know if we have any.

Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.