Quotes About Insight

Some men, like a wet dog, sprinkle a shower of advice over you when you are least prepared for a bath.

Learned men fall into error oftenest by mistaking knowledge for wisdom.

Passion is a young man's game. Young people can be passionate. Older people gotta be more wise.

A glimpse is not a vision. But to a man on a mountain road by night, a glimpse of the next three feet of road may matter more than a vision of the horizon.

Experience only can teach men not to prefer what strikes them for the present moment, to what will have much greater weight with the them hereafter.

Men are not to be judged by what they do not know, but by what they know, and by the manner in which they know it.

A man of letters, merely by reading a phrase, can estimate exactly the literary merit of its author.

Man must suffer to be wise.

If a man has not discovered anything so dying is not worth living

I suppose one gets to know men quickest by the things they take for granted.

We need clear days to see the horizons; we need foggy nights to see beyond the horizons! Man sometimes can think much deeper when he sees less!

Try to see the world from the eyes of an old man! Old eyes are a good place to begin with for understanding the truths!

God! How men of letters are stupid.

That which we know is but little; that which we have a presentiment of is immense; it is in this direction that the poet outruns the learned man.

The most creative or versatile to date...I don't know, man. That's a good question. I didn't really think about that.

In my library I have profitably and pleasantly dwelt among the shining lights, with which the learned, wise, and holy men of all ages have illuminated the world.

Man can see his reflection in water only when he bends down close to it, and the heart of man, too, must lean down to the heart of his fellow; then it will see itself within his heart.

Knowledge is to be acquired only by a corresponding experience. How can we know what we are told merely? Each man can interpret another's experience only by his own.

A man may just as soon read the Scripture without eyes, as understand the spirit of it without grace.

Men will argue more philosophically about the human heart; but women will read the heart of man better than they.

Shakespeare is a great psychologist, and whatever can be known of the heart of man may be found in his plays.

If a man knows where to get good advice, it is as though he could supply it himself.

Young men mend not their sight by using old men's spectacles.

Who is king in the world of the blind when there isn't even a one eyed man?