Quotes About Insight

If people take any notice of what we say, we say we've been through the drug scene, man, and there's nothing like being straight.

Things and men have always a certain sense, a certain side by which they must be got hold of if one wants to obtain a solid grasp and a perfect command.

Experience is a school where a man learns what a big fool he has been.

The very thing that men think they have got the most of, they have got the least of; and that is judgment.

The wisest man may be a blind father.

The truly great man dwells on what is real and not what is on the surface.

I suppose it's part of being a good politician to be able to spot the most important men in any group without outside assistance.

All sensible men are of the same religion, but no sensible man ever tells.

Depend upon it, sir, it is when you come close to a man in conservation that you discover what his real abilities are; to make a speech in a public assembly is a knack.

A trifle is often pregnant with high importance; the prudent man neglects no circumstance.

What men have seen they know. . . .

Men, in teaching others, learn themselves.

Just as a wise man can say something foolish, a fool can say something wise.

How great a quality is horse sense! Someone has defined it as that something which keeps horses from betting on men!

You can't tell what a man is like or what he is thinking when you are looking at him. You must get around behind him and see what he has been looking at.

If thou hast never been a fool, be sure thou wilt never be a wise man.

Don't believe the man who tells you there are two sides to every question. There is only one side to the truth.

All the preaching in the world cannot make a man see the truth so long as his eyes are blinded.

The real issue is not whether two and two make four or whether two and two make five, but whether life advances by men who love words or by men who love living.

He exhibits the most extraordinary capacity for middle age that I've ever encountered in a young man of twenty-four.

I find older men more attractive than boys. I need a man who can teach me a thing or two.

When a man asks your advice, he usually tells you just how he expects you to decide.

The public interest requires doing today those things that men of intelligence and good will would wish, five or ten years hence, had been done.

It is always the nearest, plainest and simplest principles that learned men comprehend last.