Quotes About Insight

Every man can see things far off but is blind to what is near.

The mind of an ordinary man is truly near the heart.

Great is wisdom; infinite is the value of wisdom. It cannot be exaggerated; it is the highest achievement of man.

What impresses men is not mind, but the result of mind.

Ideas are like beards; men do not have them until they grow up.

A good painter is to paint two main things, men and the working of man's mind.

The analytical power should not be confounded with simple ingenuity; for while the analyst is necessarily ingenious, the ingenious man is often remarkably incapable of analysis.

A woman's intuition has often proved truer than a man's arrogant assumption of knowledge.

A wise man is a greater asset to a nation than a king.

...if a man comes to his fortieth year, and has any understanding at all, he has virtually seen - thanks to their similarity - all possible happenings, both past and to come.

Seeing-is-believing is a blind spot in man's vision.

The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscript.

Girls talk to each other like men talk to each other. But girls have an eye for detail.

The more intelligent a man is, the more originality he discovers in others.

How wretched are the minds of men, and how blind their understandings. [Lat., O miseras hominum menteis! oh, pectora caeca!]

Listen to a man's words and look at the pupil of his eye. How can a man conceal his character?

The man who can put himself in the place of other men, who can understand the workings of their minds, need never worry about what the future has in store for him.

A man's library is a sort of harem.

The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.

After listening to you for slightly more than one hour, I can tell that you are a strong and intelligent man and that you want peace

A poet sees things in two ways: First, as a child who never saw it before, and Second, as a dying man who will never see it again.

Few men have imagination enough for reality.

The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas.

And any man who knows a thing, knows he knows not a damn, damn thing at all.