Quotes About Insight

A man cannot please long who has only one kind of wit.

The wisest man I have ever known once said to me: 'Nine out of every ten people improve on acquaintance,' and I have found his words true.

One need not be a prophet to be aware of impending dangers. An accidental combination of experience and interest will often reveal events to one man under aspects which few yet see.

In a man devoted to knowledge, pity seems almost ridiculous, like delicate hands on a cyclops.

I'm rarely asked to play the smartest man in the room.

But science is the collection of nature's answers; the humanities the collection of men's thoughts.

Between the two men, somewhere, a truth is lying, and that is what I try to find.

Knowledge has no enemy except an ignorant man.

I do think all art is autobiographical, and I do think I know quite a bit about women. I don't know anything about men.

To pursue a man effectively, it is best to begin with his thinking.

The greatest lessons in life, if we would but stoop and humble ourselves, we would learn not from the grown-up learned men, but from the so-called ignorant children.

Lundist held that a man who can observe is a man apart. Such a man can see opportunities where others see only the obstacles

Men of genius are not quick judges of character.

I feel like women very often do write differently than men, but women write things that men can't write.

Wise men say, and not without reason, that whosoever wished to foresee the future might consult the past.

A man is not necessarily intelligent because he has plenty of ideas, any more than he is a good general because he has plenty of soldiers.

Education makes some men wiser, others more ridiculous and foolish!

Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

One day in the shower, you figure it out. It's a special day in a man's life. I was like, 'Oh, I found me a hobby.'

Light means nothing to a blind man.

The more cultured a man, the less fortunate he is.

The task of man is not to discover new worlds, but to discover his own world in terms of human comprehension and beauty.

I'm learning to use others' weaknesses. I don't hammer a man's soft spot constantly, because he may strengthen it. I just save it as a trump up my sleeve for moments when I really need a point.

The intellectual attainments of a man who thinks for himself resemble a fine painting, where the light and shade are correct, the tone sustained, the colour perfectly hamonized; it is true to life.