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Quotes About Insight

Ten doors are opened if one door be shut: the finger is the interpreter of the dumb man's tongue.
~ Saib Tabrizi
The LORD sees not as man sees; man looks on the outward appearance, but the LORD looks on the heart.
~ Samuel
Most men believe that it would benefit them if they could get a little from those who have more. How much more would it benefit them if they would learn a little from those who know more.
~ William J. H. Boetcker
My father was the first to see through the schemes of the white man.
~ Chief Joseph
For when a woman is left too much alone, sooner or later she begins to think; and no man knows what then she may discover.
~ Edwin Arlington Robinson
The Truth must dazzle gradually or every man be blind.
~ Emily Dickinson
Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.
~ Havelock Ellis
All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know.
~ Alexis Carrel
The man who has been taught by the Holy Spirit will be a seer rather than a scholar. The difference is that the scholar sees and the seer sees through; and that is a mighty difference indeed.
~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
Man is a pupil, pain is his teacher.
~ Alfred de Musset
Here lies one who knew how to get around him men who were cleverer than himself
~ Andrew Carnegie
When I left the dining room after sitting next to Mr. Gladstone, I thought he was the cleverest man in England. But after sitting next to Mr. Disraeli, I thought I was the cleverest woman in England.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
How sickness enlarges the dimension of a man's self to himself!
~ Charles Lamb
All men are children, and if you understand that, a woman understands everything.
~ Coco Chanel
Enlightenment is not an attainment; it is a realization. And when you wake up, everything changes and nothing changes. If a blind man realizes that he can see, has the world changed?
~ Dan Millman
Credo Mutwa, the most knowledgeable man i have ever had the honor of knowing.
~ David Icke
When a man can observe himself suffering and is able, later, to describe what he's gone through, it means he was born for literature.
~ Edouard Bourdet
Dalmatians are not only superior to other dogs, they are like all dogs, infinitely less stupid than men.
~ Eugene O'Neill
Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that men never learn anything from history.
~ George Bernard Shaw
To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.
~ George Eliot
Love of truth shows itself in this, that a man knows how to find and value the good in everything.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The real meaning of the word paranoia is--- a man or person who has the ability to link events that seemingly are not connected.
~ John Coleman
In the works of man, everything is as poor as its author; vision is confined, means are limited, scope is restricted, movements are labored, and results are humdrum.
~ Joseph de Maistre
If you want to know about a man you can find out an awful lot by looking at who he married.
~ Kirk Douglas