Quotes About Insight

It is expedient to have acquaintance with those who have looked into the world, who know men, understand business, and can give you good intelligence and good advice when they are wanted.

Books are dead men talking.

An old man concludeth from his knowing mankind that they know him too, and that maketh him very wary.

The critic lives at second hand. He writes about. The poem, the novel, or the play must be given to him; criticism exists by the grace of other men's genius.

If you know what a man's doing, get in front of him; but if you want to guess what he's doing keep behind him.

It is very good for a man to talk about what he does not understand; as long as he understands that he does not understand it.

Books represent the accumulated workings of the human mind, the endless treasures of man's thoughts.

When I started Ashes and Snow in 1992, I set out to explore the relationship between man and animals from the inside out.

Experience is a poor guide to man, and is seldom followed. What really teaches a man is not experience, but observation.

To enter into the hearts of men belongs to him who can explore the human heart.

When you have found out the prevailing passion of any man, remember never to trust him where that passion is concerned.

A man in his life may have many teachers, some most unexpected. The question lies with the man himself: Will he learn from them?

Think with the big head, man! Think with the big head!

Master of the universe is every man's potential insight, cosmic potential.

Man is not to drown himself in the well of the Shastras, but he is to dive in their broad ocean and bring out pearls.

A man who would interpret the scriptures must have the spiritual discipline.

God's ways are more than Man's arithmetic.

I'm tired of saying "How wonderful you are!" to fool men, who haven't got one half sense I've got.

I think you need to have lived more to truly know a man's heart. You need to have made more transactions in life to know the worth of the coin you spend so freely

My father was an amazing man. The older I got, the smarter he got.

The man who sets out to carry a cat by its tail learns something that will always be useful and which never will grow dim or doubtful.

I knew a man who grabbed a cat by the tail and learned forty percent more about cats than the man who didn't.

Until we know what motivates the hearts and minds of men we can understand nothing outside ourselves, nor will we ever reach fulfillment as that greatest miracle of all, the human being.

All knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men.