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Quotes About Insight

A man with deep far-sightedness will survey both the beginning and the end of a situation and continually consider its every facet as important.
~ Takeda Shingen
All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes.
~ Winston Churchill
The more I read my poems, the more I find out about them. I still read them with the same passion I felt when I wrote them as a young man.
~ Linton Kwesi Johnson
Women think with their whole bodies and they see things as a whole more than men do.
~ Dorothy Day
You know what I hate, man? Guys that you know haven't seen the film: they just quote a bunch of statistical bullshit.
~ Jon Gruden
No Man is wise at all Times, or is without his blind Side.
~ Desiderius Erasmus
Any man who thinks he knows the mind of a woman is a man who knows nothing.
~ Robert Evans
The man of understanding finds everything laughable.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I don't read such small stuff as letters, I read men and nations. I can see through a millstone, though I can't see through a spelling-book. What a narrow idea a reading qualification is for a voter!
~ Sojourner Truth
An unsophisticated forecaster uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts - for support rather than for illumination.
~ Andrew Lang
Watch a man at play for an hour and you can learn more about him than in talking to him for a year.
~ Plato
Wine is a peep-hole on a man.
~ Alcaeus
A man may be theologically knowing and spiritually ignorant.
~ Stephen Charnock
A man who correctly guesses a woman's age may be smart, but he's not very bright.
~ Lucille Ball
Stick to the man who looks out of the window and tries to understand the world. Keep clear of the man who looks in at the window and tries to understand you.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
There is a brief moment when all there is in a man's mind and soul and spirit is reflected through his eyes, his hands, his attitude. This is the moment to record
~ Yousuf Karsh
Why is it that a woman can see from a distance what a man cannot see close?
~ Thomas Hardy
One man who saw through his own eyes and thought with his own brain. Such men may be rare, they may be unknown, but they move the world.
~ Gary Cooper
If the infinite had not desired man to be wise, he would not have bestowed upon him the faculty of knowing.
~ Manly Hall
I got more true knowledge from reading the Book of God in one month, than I could ever have acquired from all the writings of men.
~ George Whitefield
The views of men can only be known, or guessed at, by their words or actions.
~ George Washington
When the wise man opens his mouth, the beauties of his soul present themselves to the view, like the statues in a temple.
~ Pythagoras
Behind every great man is a woman. Telling him he's not so hot.
~ Harrison Ford
A high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer