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Quotes About Insight

Not on the stage alone, in the world also, a man's real character comes out best in his asides.
~ Alexander Smith
Any man that walks the mead In bud, or blade, or bloom, may find, According as his humors lead, A meaning suited to his mind.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
Women know things that men will never know. We keep the best secrets. We tell the best stories.
~ Alice Hoffman
True, man does not know woman. But neither does woman.
~ Ambrose Bierce
It is little men know of women; their smiles and their tears alike are seldom what they seem.
~ Amelia Barr
My! ain't men blinder'n moles?
~ Amy Lowell
There are days now where I think, "Oh man, that would've been a great entry," but I'm putting the pen down until I clear my head, or think of another book idea.
~ Andy Cohen
No man can prophesy with another's parable.
~ Anna Julia Cooper
We can generally read a man's purpose towards us in his manner, if his purposes are of much moment to us.
~ Anthony Trollope
Every man finds his limitations, Mr. Holmes, but at least it cures us of the weakness of self-satisfaction.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Perhaps, when a man has special knowledge and special powers like my own, it rather encourages him to seek a complex explanation when a simpler one is at hand.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Science is one thing, wisdom is another. Science is an edged tool, with which men play like children, and cut their own fingers.
~ Arthur Eddington
Obviously, a man's judgement cannot be better than the information on which he bases it
~ Arthur Hays Sulzberger
Happy is the man who knows how to distinguish the real from the unreal, the eternal from the transient and the good from the pleasant by his discrimination and wisdom.
~ B.K.S. Iyengar
Men simply don't understand how women are. They think there's some other kind.
~ Babs Deal
Who judges best of a Man, his Enemies or himself?
~ Benjamin Franklin
The main thing needed to make men happy is intelligence.
~ Bertrand Russell
To write tragedy, a man must feel tragedy. To feel tragedy, a man must be aware of the world in which he lives. Not only with his mind, but with his blood and sinews.
~ Bertrand Russell
The wise men were all fools, what to do?
~ Bruce Springsteen
It's mind-altering when you slip into someone else's shoes. That's psychedelic, man.
~ Bryan Cranston
Man might have identified fire, but women identified the way to enjoy with it.
~ Candace Bushnell
I understand men much better than most women I know.
~ Catherine Bell
Men should come with instruction booklets.
~ Cathy Guisewite
Experience can dull. With most men experience is a series of mistakes; the more experience you have the less you know.
~ Charles Bukowski