Quotes About Insight

A man is original when he speaks the truth that has always been known to all good men.

Everywhere the flower of obedience is intelligence. Obey a man with cordial loyalty and you will understand him.

A man's opinions are generally of much more value than his arguments.

Man has made use of his intelligence; he invented stupidity.

The ever-present phenomenon ceases to exist for our senses. It was a city dweller, or a prisoner, or a blind man suddenly given his sight, who first noted natural beauty.

What a great thing is understanding! It is priceless. No man can give greater pleasure to his fellow man than by understanding him.

...the wise man knows that every experience is to be viewed as a blessing.

The wind in a man's face makes him wise.

Old men do it better. We're not so sensitive in certain areas.

It is unavoidable that if we learn more about a great man's life, we shall also hear of occasions on which he has done no better than we, and has in fact come nearer to us as a human being.

Man is fatally slow on the uptake; it always takes him until the next generation to understand what's going on.

Man sees your actions, but God your motives.

When a man puts me a question, I judge of his intelligence.

Happy the man who has been able to learn the causes of things.

Ignorant men differ from beasts only in their figure.

No man has all the wisdom in the world; everyone has some.

The fool is not the man who merely does foolish things. The fool is the man who does not know enough to cash in on his foolishness.

One man with a head on his shoulders is worth a dozen without.

Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.

For us the great men are not those who solved the problems, but those whodiscovered them.

Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.

Some very plausible stuff is being written by women in a way that most men are not doing.

In [my] life ... I did not understand steam machinery, but I tried to understand that much more complicated piece of mechanism - man.

If you are able to explain suffering, a man once told him, you weren't really there.