Quotes About Insight

The man who thinks he knows something does not yet know as he ought to know.

A knife of the keenest steel requires the whetstone, and the wisest man needs advice.

Every failure teaches a man something, if he will learn; and you are too sensible a man not to learn from this failure.

Wise men listen and laugh, while fools talk.

Man is a parrot in the House of History; he listens and then he repeats the same crap over and over!

The intellect of two thousand asses cannot bring forth a single man's thought.

If the majority doesn't laugh at you, beware that you must be saying something wrong. When the majority thinks you are a fool, only then is there some possibility of you being a wise man.

The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.

If a man knows more than others, he becomes lonely.

Sorrows are our best educator. A man can see further through a tear than a telescope.

The saddest thing about any man is that he be ignorant, and the most exciting thing is that he knows.

Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism.

What is divine escapes men's notice because of their incredulity.

Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.

When I make my drawings... the path traced by my pencil on the sheet of paper is, to some extent, analogous to the gesture of a man groping his way in the darkness.

Some of the best advice I've had comes from junior officers and enlisted men.

The world is full of wonders and miracles but man takes his little hand and covers his eyes and sees nothing.

Men (people) are rarely aware of the real reasons which motivate their actions.

A wise man will find us to be rogues by our faces.

If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.

What a man sees depends both upon what he looks at and also upon what his previous visual-conceptual experience has taught him to see.

There is only a finger's difference between a wise man and a fool.

Men who can both be right and sit tight are uncommon.

What men call knowledge, is the reasoned acceptance of false appearances. Wisdom looks behind the veil and sees.