Quotes About Insight

Man's best candle is his understanding.

The story of any one man's real experience finds its startling parallel in that of every one of us.

Since I write in first person and have no idea what goes on in men's heads.

The wisest man may always learn something from the humblest peasant.

At least us old men remember what a real bear market is like, and the young men haven't got a clue.

Fools learn nothing from wise men, but wise men learn much from fools.

Nobody, they say, is a hero to his valet. Of course; for a man must be a hero to understand a hero. The valet, I dare say, has great respect for some person of his own stamp.

The important thing is not to know more than all men, but to know more at each moment than any particular man.

Just because a man glances up at the sky at night does not make him an astronomer, you know.

It was six men of Hindustan To learning much inclined, Who went to see the Elephant (Though all of them were blind) That each by observation Might satisfy the mind.

With no specific procedure, man arrived at sweeping conclusions about the universe that have proven to be true.

The greatest Clerkes be not the wisest men.

Seasoned life of man preserved and stored up in books.

Adversity makes men wise but not rich.

Wit and wisdom are born with a man.

Give me a used Bible and I will, I think, be able to tell you about a man by the places that are edged with the dirt of seeking fingers.

I find it valid to understand man as an animal before I am prepared to know him as a man.

Every man's follies are the caricature resemblances of his wisdom.

Improvements are invented only by those who can feel that something is not good.

Every single moment, an ignorant discovers an idea that has been known for centuries!

Most mothers are instinctive philosophers.

But I can see. I can see everything. I can see things that Mom and Dad can't. Or won't.

It's funny because the most sane women I've ever met are my mom and my grandmothers. I think you have to be incredibly sane and self-aware to function in relatively insane environments.

One of the blessings of becoming an adult is finally seeing my mom and dad as people, not just parents.