Quotes About Insight

The stubborn stops when finding a mistake, the wise man will not stop until finding the true.

A man of maxims only is like a Cyclops with one eye, and that in the back of his head.

By how much one man has more experience of things past, than another, by so much also he is more prudent, and his expectations the seldomer fail him.

A one-eyed man is much more incomplete than a blind man, for he knows what it is that's lacking.

I understand the common man because I understand me in that regard at least.

A wise man once remarked that we can count how many seeds are in the apple, but not how many apples are in the seed.

There are three types of men in the world. One type learns from books. One type learns from observations. And one type just has to urinate on the electric fence himself.

It is always well to get near to men of genius.

Show is not substance; realities govern wise men.

The wise man is he who knows the relative value of things.

One may as well go, as look into another man's house; because the eye may reach what the hand cannot.

For never, never, wicked man was wise.

Man relates to material things through direct insight rather than reason.

A man who has been an animal has infinitely more knowledge of that animal than a man who has merely dissected one.

I love the idea of working with women because I always feel like a man designing womenswear needs women around him to really have a sense of what they're doing.

A woman should never underestimate the power of the child in the man. Sometimes the child seems to be in the driver's seat at the very moment when all a man's adult judgment and insight is needed.

The more man knows of man, the better for the common brotherhood among men.

It's never that hard for me to imagine what it must feel like to be someone else, whether it's an American teenage girl or a Japanese octogenarian man

Converse, converse, CONVERSE, with living men, face to face, mind to mind-that is one of the best sources of knowledge.

You get to know more of the character of a man in a round of golf than in six months of political experience.

One must have ambition and one must understand the minds ... of men.

Beauty is not, as fond men misdeem, an outward show of things that only seem.

Let a man once see himself as others see him, and all enthusiasm vanishes from his heart.

Man is not in the world to set it right, but to see it rightly.