Quotes About Insight

If I had read as much as other men I would have known no more than they.

Insight into the two selves within a man clears up many confusions and contradictions. It was our understanding that preceded our victory.

A more conscious life is one in which a man is conscious not only of what he sees, but of the prejudices with which he sees it.

You don't need to be told some things. You can sometimes tell more by a man's silence and the set of his head than by what he says.

It is but the littleness of man that seeth no greatness in trifles.

Common sense is a phrase employed to denote that degree of intelligence, sagacity, and prudence which is common to all men.

That man can interrogate as well as observe nature was a lesson slowly learned in his evolution.

When a wise man gives thee better counsel, give me mine again.

I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men.

I believe that a man can only be useful to his country when he can look at it clearly.

Why has not Man a microscopic eye? For this plain reason, Man is not a Fly. Say what the use, were finer optics giv'n, T' inspect a mite, not comprehend the heav'n.

If a man is worth knowing at all, he is worth knowing well.

The merely well-informed man is the most useless bore on God's earth.

Any one prominent in affairs can always see when a man may steal a horse and when a man may not look over a hedge.

The things best to know are first principles and causes, but these things are perhaps the most difficult for men to grasp, for they are farthest removed from the senses.

The man who sees two or three generations is like one who sits in the conjuror's booth at a fair, and sees the same tricks two or three times. They are meant to be seen only once.

Every wise man lives in an observatory.

Life with Fools consists in Drinking; with the wise Man, living's Thinking.

I have known men who could see through the motivations of others with the skill of a clairvoyant; only to prove blind to their own mistakes. I have been one of those men.

In proportion as our own mind is enlarged we discover a greater number of men of originality. Commonplace people see no difference between one man and another.

I've noticed over my 22 years of living that, yes, women can be difficult, and I call myself a ladies' man, thinking I have them figured out. But as men, we will never understand women.

You are inexperienced. So was I, once. So is every man. The measure of a person is not how much they have lived. . . It's in how they make us of what life has shown them.

Washington newspaper men know everything.

A man of knowledge chooses a path with a heart and follows it and then he looks and rejoices and laughs and then he sees and knows.