Quotes About Insight

The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.

What do you tell a man with two black eyes? Nothing, he's already been told twice.

Man knows much more than he understands.

The man who knows how will always be the student, but the man who knows why will continue to be the instructor.

The natural man perceiveth not the things of the Spirit, and he cannot know them, for they are foolishness unto him.

Read not books alone, but men, and amongst them chiefly thyself.

I would rather have my ignorance than another man's knowledge, because I have so much of it.

When a wise man points at the moon the imbecile examines the finger.

No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.

It's important to have women in leadership positions, because our experiences are different from those of the men we serve with and that helps us identify problems we can fix.

Many's the man/ who thought himself wise/ but what he needed/ he did not know.

A wise man's question contains half the answer. Unfortunately the other 50% is harder to come by!

The more experience and insight I obtain into human nature, the more convinced do I become that the greater portion of a man is purely animal.

Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do.

Seek your own Reality, That is what a wise man should do.

It's a wise man who profits by his own experience, but it's a good deal wiser one who lets the rattlesnake bite the other fellow.

No man can be wise on an empty stomach.

Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it.

It is like the man who became short-sighted and refused to wear glasses, saying there was nothing wrong with him, but that the trouble was that the recent papers were so badly printed.

You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs.

A genius is a man who has two great ideas.

If a man takes off his sunglasses I can hear him better.

I have often heard that the outstanding man is he who thinks deeply about a problem, and the next is he who listens carefully to advice.

Wise men have more to learn of fools than fools of wise men.