Quotes About Insight

Philosophers are only men in armor after all.

It is a common remark that men talk most who think least; just as frogs cease their quacking when a light is brought to the water-side.

The worst sort of clever men are those who know better than the Bible.

During high school I worked in a retirement home. I spent many wonderful hours hearing from service men and their widows about WWI.

If men could see us as we really are, they would be a little amazed.

Wisdom is like a goatskin bag; every man carries his own.

I'm not trying to sound like I turned into some kind of wise man, but it's nice to realize that your little pocket of the world isn't the whole world.

A man cannot paint portraits till he has seen faces.

The wise man understands his weakness and seeks to find a lesson from it. The fool lets it control and destroy him.

When you're looking for a band name, I know it sounds weird, but everything you look at, everything you observe and read, you kind of think, 'Man, maybe that could be our band name.

Oh, man, oh how I wish I didn't smoke or drink to reason with my head.

'These things will become clear to you,' said the old man gently, 'at least,' he added with slight doubt in his voice, 'clearer than they are at the moment.'

It is too often seen, that the wiser men are about the things of this world, the less wise they are about the things of the next.

The eyes of a man are of no use without the observing power. Telescopes and microscopes are cunning contrivances, but they cannot see of themselves.

People talk about revelation, and say it has ceased; but what ignorance it bespeaks, when man knows not the least thing on earth without revelation.

Books are men of higher stature.

When a man who looks like Yoda hands you a prophecy, you have to respond.

I spent a week living as a man. Which was actually, I'm sorry to say, embarrassingly easy for me to do.

I'm strictly for Stevenson. I don't dig the intellectual bit, but I'm telling you, man, he knows the most.

He who can properly summarize many ideas in a brief statement, is a wise man.

There is naught a man or woman can not learn who hath the wit.

No man can see his own prejudices.

I knew a wise man that had it for a by-word, when he saw men hasten to a conclusion, "Stay a little, that we may make an end the sooner."

There are many wise men that have secret hearts and transparent countenances.