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Quotes About Insight

In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is a hallucinating idiot...for he sees what no one else does: things that, to everyone else, are not there.
~ Marshall McLuhan
Consciousness is a state in which a man knows all at once everything that he in general knows and in which he can see how little he does know and how many contradictions there are in what he knows.
~ G. I. Gurdjieff
A fool despises good counsel, but a wise man takes it to heart.
~ Confucius
The more I see of men, the more I admire dogs. - Jeanne
~ Madame Roland
Only ... from personal experience [can a man] take the necessary measures without a preliminary process of trial and error.
~ Karl Donitz
A single day is sufficient for a man to discover what happiness is.
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
The wise man knows how to run his life so that contemplation is possible.
~ Gabriel Marcel
Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.
~ Cato the Elder
Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The man for whom history is bunk is almost invariably as obtuse to the future as he is blind to the past.
~ J. Frank Dobie
No man is invincible, and therefore no man can fully understand that which would make him invincible
~ Miyamoto Musashi
A wise man once said, 'The skill in attending a party is knowing when it's time to leave.'
~ Michael Stipe
A man's bookcase will tell you everything you'll ever need to know about him
~ Walter Mosley
A man must learn to understand the motives of human beings, their illusions, and their sufferings.
~ Albert Einstein
When a man sees the one in all things, he is above mere understanding.
~ Meister Eckhart
Nobody notices postmen, yet they have passions like other men.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
As bees extract honey from thyme, the strongest and driest of herbs, so sensible men often get advantage and profit from the most awkward circumstances.
~ Plutarch
No man can be a politician, except he be first a historian or a traveller; for except he can see what must be, or what may be, he is no politician.
~ James Harrington
The wise man does not grow old, but ripens.
~ Victor Hugo
Sight is the noblest sense of man.
~ Albrecht Durer
An alert and learned man will take advice from any event.
~ Ali ibn Abi Talib
And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.
~ George Eliot
Man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern.
~ William Blake
No man lives or has ever lived who has brought the same amount of study and of natural talent to the detection of crime which I have done.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle