Quotes About Insight

I don't understand men. I don't even understand what I don't understand about men.

Put a very clever man next to a genius, his brightness will immediately turn to dullness!

If you look at the monkeys, you can learn many things about the men; if you look at the men, you can learn many things about the madness!

One is greater than two amongst three men where only one of them is intelligent!

There is an icy window before every man! Faces cannot be seen clearly! Wait for the ice to melt down!

Water jokes about the obstacles on its way; wise man jokes about the obstacles on his way!

Don't ever take seriously, don't ever consider, don't even pay any attention to what a man says or does until he gets to about 30.

If atheists are deaf to the word of God, then theists are blind to the ways of man.

Intelligence is required to be able to know that a man knows not.

Travelling through the world produces a marvellous clarity in the judgment of men. We are all of us confined and enclosed within ourselves, and see no farther than the end of our nose.

I have a sense of this man [Donald Trump]. I have a sense of his heart.

The man was hit in one eye by a stone, and that eye turned inward so that it looked into his mind, and he died of what he saw there

...the lesson of forever and ever is that knowing a man's mind ain't knowing the man.

I'm not doing anything, and yet I'm also doing the most important thing a man can do: I'm listening to what I needed to hear from myself.

Men astonish themselves far more than they astonish their friends.

A really intelligent man makes an indifferent painter. For painting requires a certain blindness, a partial refusal to be aware of all the options.

Usually as humans and especially as a man, we look at things in context. It's like, oh, I know what that is, that's this, or this, there's that.

Bob Glaudini, the writer, he's a wonderfully talented man and all his plays and his screenplays, they all have sense of something bigger, even though you're looking at something very simple.

I've seen many men avoid the region of good advice before they were really near it.

No mortal man, moreover is wise at all moments.

When Eudæmonidas heard a philosopher arguing that only a wise man can be a good general, "This is a wonderful speech," said he; "but he that saith it never heard the sound of trumpets.

From all wise men, O Lord, protect us.

To understand a man is really to be that man.

Heavens! what thick darkness pervades the minds of men. [Lat., Pro superi! quantum mortalia pectora caecae, Noctis habent.]