Quotes About Insight

It is the essence of genius to make use of the simplest ideas.

Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.

Simplicity of character is the natural result of profound thought.

Simple truths are a relief from grand speculations.

Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.

The smartest thing I ever said was, "Help Me!"

A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.

I have learnt a good deal from my own talk.

Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.

They understand but little who understand only what can be explained.

Ambassadors are the eye and ear of states.

A stranger's eyes see clearest.

I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should appear like a fool but be wise.

Taste is the feminine of genius.

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

One thing I can guarantee you. You may not be a great deal wiser from my talk today, but you will be a great deal older.

Adam was the only man who, when he said a good thing, knew that nobody had said it before him.

Be not curious in unnecessary matters: for more things are shewed unto thee than men understand.

The heart of a statesman should be in his head.

Merely having an open mind is nothing. The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.

Discipline does not mean suppression and control, nor is it adjustment to a pattern or ideology. It means a mind that sees 'what is' and learns from 'what was'.

To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its prime function of looking forward.

The past is the best way to suppose what may come.