Quotes About Insight

Did you ever see a portrait of a great man without perceiving strong traits of pain and anxiety?

No man is the wiser for his learning

With equality of experience and of general faculties, a woman usually sees much more than a man of what is immediately before her.

The greatest men May ask a foolish question, now and then.

Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.

Old age takes from the man of intellect no qualities save those that are useless to wisdom.

A man cannot learn to be wise any more than he can learn to be handsome.

Common sense among men of fortune is rare.

In a blind town, the one-eyed man is king.

In critical moments, men sometimes see exactly what they wish to see.

Few men have depth enough to hear or tell the truth.

How blind men are to Heaven's gifts!

There is no more light in a genius than in any other honest man - but he has a particular kind of lens to concentrate this light into a burning point.

That which is usually called dotage is not the weak point of all old men, but only of such as are distinguished by their levity.

Every one is least known to himself, and it is very difficult for a man to know himself.

Well, so it must be, for as man saw reality, so it became.

A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom when he can no longer be led by the nose.

Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial instinct by which you and I size people up.

How many really capable men are children more than once during the day!

I went as an observer, not a participant, for I do not think that I ever spoke. I wanted to understand the issues under discussion, evaluate the arguments, see the calibre of the men involved.

There are more fools than wise men, and even in a wise man there is more folly than wisdom.

He who is invisible sees more clearly, hears more clearly, and is better able to read the thoughts of men.

Real understanding does not come from what we learn in books; it comes from what we learn from love of nature, of music, of man. For only what is learned in that way is truly understood.

All men, well interrogated, answer well.