Quotes About Insight

I do believe female directors, as well as our female writer, can bring out male vulnerability that some men can't because they can't face it.

The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.

The inner man has access to the sense organs of god.

Man's wonder grows with his knowledge.

He Who Knows And Knows That He Knows Is A Wise Man - Follow Him; He Who Knows Not And Knows Not That He Knows Not Is A Fool - Shun Him

A fool marvels at rare things, but a wise man at common ones.

Wise Man: One who sees the storm coming before the clouds appear.

A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win.

One learns little more about a man from the feats of his literary memory than from the feats of his alimentary canal.

How few things can a man measure with the tape of his understanding ; How many greater things might he be seeing in the meanwhile.

One who hates is a man holding a magnifying-glass, and when he hates someone, he knows precisely that person's surface, from the soles of his feet all the way up to each hair on the hated head

There are lessons to be learned from a stupid man.

The man of science, like the man of letters, is too apt to view mankind only in the abstract, selecting in his consideration only a single side of our complex and many-sided being.

To prejudge other men's notions before we have looked into them is not to show their darkness but to put out our own eyes.

The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.

The maxims of men reveal their characters.

The only thing history teaches us, a wise man once said, is that history doesn't teach us anything.

I have said that the modern man, and especially the modern American, however much 'know-how' he may have, has very little 'know-what'

Silence is an answer to a wise man.

The mind of the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-à-brac shop, all monsters and dust, with everything priced above its proper value.

A SEEING eye is better than three hundred blind men's: The eye can distinguish pearls from pebbles.

Every man wishes to be wise, and they who cannot be wise are almost always cunning.

The way he plays Chess demonstrates a man's whole nature

Men, generally going with the stream, seldom judge for themselves, and purity of taste is almost as rare as talent.