Quotes About Insight

There was always more in the world than men could see, walked they ever so slowly; they will see it no better for going fast. The really precious things are thought and sight, not pace.

The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.

Common sense is an instinct given to man and enough of it is genius. Smartness is measured by the level of common sense one has, not by how much educated or knowledgeable he is.

The Wise Man is square but not sharp, honest but not not malign, straight but not severe, bright but not dazzling.

What a man does not know is greater than he.

There is a master way with words that cannot be learned but instead developed: a deaf man develops exceptional vision, a blind man exceptional hearing, a silent man, when given a piece of paper.

Literature is man's exploration of man by artificial light, which is better than natural light because we can direct it where we want.

A resolution never to deceive exposes a man to be often deceived.

Wouldst thou know thyself, observe the actions of others. Wouldst thou other men know, look thou within thine own heart.

It is strange that only extraordinary men make the discoveries, which later appear so easy and simple.

The man who never reads lives only one.

My errors will point to thinking men the various roads, and will teach them the great art of treading on the brink of the precipice without falling into it.

Probably the difference between man and the monkeys is that the monkeys are merely bored, while man has boredom plus imagination.

Nature herself makes the wise man rich.

I took benzedrine - I got clairvoyance. With benzedrine you can have a very wide view of the world, like you can decide the destiny of man and other pressing problems, such as which is the left sock?

Has any man ever obtained inner harmony by simply reading about the experiences of others? Not since the world began has it ever happened. Each man must go through the fire himself.

The bounds of a man's knowledge are easily concealed, if he has but prudence.

Young men know the rules, but old men know the exceptions.

To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men that is genius.

If a man will kick a fact out of the window, when he comes back he finds it again in the chimney corner.

Why does man behave like perfect idiot? This is the problem I wish to deal with.

When men ask me how I know so much about men, they get a simple answer: everything I know about men, I learned from me.

The wise man knows of all things, as far as possible, although he has no knowledge of each of them in detail

There is a wide difference between the original thinker and the merely learned man.