Quotes About Insight

Come home to men's business and bosoms.

Knowledge hath in it somewhat of the serpent, and therefore where it entereth into a man it makes him swell.

Self-love is more cunning than the most cunning man in the world.

A man does not please long when he has only species of wit.

If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.

It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular.

There is nothing men are so generous of as advice.

Men and things have each their proper perspective; to judge rightly of some it is necessary to see them near, of others we can never judge rightly but at a distance.

There ought to be some sign in a book about man, that the writer knows thoroughly one man at least.

Whoever has looked deeply into the world might well guess what wisdom lies in the superficiality of men.

And if a man goes through fire for his doctrine - what does that prove? Verily, it is more if your own doctrine comes out of your own fire.

Mathematics is merely the means to a general and ultimate knowledge of man.

The man who sees little always sees less than there is to see; the man who hears badly always hears something more than there is to hear.

Suppose, gentleman, that man is not stupid.

One could never judge a man without seeing him close, for oneself.

The first man to see an illusion by which men have flourished for centuries surely stands in a lonely place.

no one in the whole world knows all a man's bignesses and all his littlenesses as his wife does.

He who knows himself properly can very soon learn to know all other men. It is all reflection.

Nothing reveals a man's character better than the kind of joke at which he takes offense.

As soon as you know a man to be blind, you imagine that you can see it from his back.

History teaches us that man learns nothing from history

There is a remedy for every thing, could men find it.

In the kingdome of blind men the one ey'd is king. [In the kingdom of blind men the one eyed is king.]

Fooles bite one another, but wise-men agree together.