Quotes About Insight

There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.

Man will become better when you show him what he is like.

It takes a great man to make a great listener

Do not be deceived into thinking that how a man acts is the full picture.

I have tried sedulously not to laugh at the acts of man, nor to lament them, nor to detest them, but to understand them.

I'd love to be a man for a day, just to see what it's like.

How can one dive into the intricate mystery of man when One doesn't see where One is located

The shaman is not merely a sick man, or a madman; he is a sick man who has healed himself.

The perfect man employs his mind as a mirror.

It is much easier to make good men wise, than to make bad men good.

If men had wings and bore black feathers, Few of them would be clever enough to be crows.

The worst part a man can suffer is to have insight into much and power over nothing.

To have a true idea of man or of life, one must have stood himself on the brink of suicide, or on the door-sill of insanity, at least once.

To philosophize man must put his whole soul into play, in much the same manner that to run he must use his heart and lungs.

The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acpuire it.

No wise man has called a change of opinion in constancy.

Cato used to assert that wise men profited more by fools than fools by wise men; for that wise men avoided the faults of fools, but that fools would not imitate the good examples of wise men.

Stupidity often saves a man from going mad.

In every man there is something wherein I may learn of him, and in that I am his pupil.

I have learned the truth of the observation that the more one approaches great men the more one finds that they are men.

A really intelligent man feels what other men only know.

Man is but a beast without it: such a glorious god is Learning.

There's one thing my old man taught me and it's the best thing he taught me. It wasn't education at college or university – it was commonsense.

But wise is the man who disdains no character, but with searching glance explores him to the root and cause of all.