Quotes About Insight

This food-and-shelter theory concerning man's efforts is without insight. The desire for praise is more imperative than the desire for food and shelter

Those who are held Wise among men and who search the reasons of things, are those who bring the most sorrow on themselves.

She looked at nice young men as if she could smell their stupidity.

Most men, like plants, possess hidden qualities which chance discovers.

Few men know all the ill they do.

The difference between a 'wise guy' and a wise man is plenty!

Nothing can be taught to a man, only it's possibly to help him to discover it inside.

The world is full of bright men who know all the right things to say and who say them in the wrong place.

What a man is lies as certainly upon his countenance as in his heart, though none of his acquaintances may be able to read it. The very intercourse with him may have rendered it more difficult.

If the advice of a fool for once happens to be good, it requires a wise man to carry it out.

The longer you live and the more you learn, the more clearly you will feel the difference between the few men who are truly great and the mere virtuosi.

In a general sense, I admit to valuing the worldviews of men under the age of 40 and women over the age of 30.

What the eye does not see, the stomach does not get upset over

Briar: "So I guess I was the last to know." Rosethorn: "Of course you are. You're a man, aren't you?

To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed.

Roger Scruton is one of our great men of speculation

The consolation of reading biography: Most great men have led lives even more miserable than our own.

I've never directed anything before 'Mad Men,' so I don't feel I have any advice for the other directors.

A city with one newspaper... is like a man with one eye, and often the eye is glass.

Feminine intuition, a quality perhaps even rarer in women than in men.

Too much philosophy makes men mad.

I've seen the future! It's a bald-headed man from New York!

...and knowledge is one of the finest attributes of man - though often it is most loudly voiced by those who strive for it the least.

Old men, for the most part, are like old chronicles that give you dull but true accounts of times past, and are worth knowing only on that score.