Quotes About Insight

So all that is said of the wise man by Stoic or Oriental or modern essayist, describes to each reader his own idea, describes his unattained but attainable self.

The foolish man wonders at the unusual, but the wise man at the usual.

All persons are puzzles until at last we find in some word or act the key to the man, to the woman; straightway all their past words and actions lie in light before us.

If the whole of history is in one man, it is all to be explained from individual experience.

If we will not interfere with our thought, but will act entirely, or see how the thing stands in God, we know the particular thing, and every thing, and every man.

Is not, indeed, every man a student, and do not all things exist for the student's behoof?

No man is so wise that he cannot benefit by talking things out with others.

The man of thought strikes deepest and strikes safest.

A real man's weapon is his mind.

One wise man's verdict outweighs all the fools'.

Poets like Shakespeare know more about poetry than any $25 an hour man.

Some immemorial imbecilities have been added deliberately, on the ground that it is just as interesting to note how foolish men have been as to note how wise they have been.

I am a visual man. I watch, watch, watch. I understand things through my eyes.

Perhaps the facts most astounding and most real are never communicated by man to man.

One revelation has been made to the Indian, another to the white man.

There are continents and seas in the moral world, to which every man is an isthmus or inlet, yet unexplored by him.

A man has not seen a thing who has not felt it.

If you are a seer, whenever you meet a man you will see all that he owns, ay, and much that he pretends to disown, behind him.

It takes longer for man to find out man than any other creature that is made.

Not one man in five cycles, who is wise, will expect appreciative recognition from his fellows, or any one of them.

The man that has anything bountifully laughable about him, be sure there is more in that man than you perhaps think for.

...he'll never lie - the man is far too wise.

A knowledge of mankind and of things that surround us gives us that second education which proves far move valuable than our first because it alone turns out a truly accomplished man.

I'm nice with damn kids, man. Kids love me. I can bounce back and forth. I can discipline kids and I can get into the mind of a kid.