Quotes About Insight

He that has more Knowledge than Judgment, is made for another Man's use more than his own.

It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours.

The one knowing what is profitable, and not the man knowing many things, is wise.

All men are ignorant, just in different fields.

One must open men's eyes, not tear them out.

Now I understand," said the last man.

A lot of 18-year-olds are like old men. They think they've seen everything.

Man is so constituted that he then only excels other things when he knows himself.

If you want to be successful, just meditate, man. God will tell you what people need.

I'm married, which means that instead of occasionally wondering about men from afar, I actually live with one and can be constantly astounded by the strange male brain.

The size of a man's understanding might always be justly measured by his mirth.

There is no limit to which a man will not go to avoid thinking.

No man sees far, most see no farther than their noses.

Have you never heard what the wise men say: all of the future exists in the past.

Nobody loves the light like the blind man.

A man might pass for insane who should see things as they are.

Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.

Men often stumble onto the truth but then quickly dust themselves off and hurry away.

Men are so made that they can resist sound argument, and yet yield to a glance.

All advice can only be a product of the man who gives it.

I am told so many ill things of a man, and I see so few in him, that I begin to suspect he has a real but troublesome merit, as being likely to eclipse that of others.

If there is no meditation, then you are like a blind man in a world of great beauty, light and colour.

The follies of the wise man are known to himself, but hidden from the world.

Judge a man's character by what he finds ridiculous.