Quotes About Insight

The woman's vision is deep-reaching, the man's far-reaching.

The mind of man is more intuitive than logical, and comprehends more than it can coordinate.

Man has a viewpoint, but God has the view.

I know so much about men because I went to night school.

The wise man is seldom prudent.

You can judge a man by the books in his library.

Wise is the man who says what needs to be said, but not all that could be said.

The ultimate function of art is to make men do what they want to do, as it is to make them recognize what they know.

Men prominent in life are mostly hard to converse with. They lack small-talk, and at the same time one doesn't like to confront them with their own great themes.

A clever man can see the world from a cave much better than a stupid man can from the top of a mountain!

The impromptu reply is precisely the touchstone of the man of wit.

Could we but rightly comprehend the mind of man, nothing would be impossible to us upon the earth.

A man is a poet if difficulties inherent in his art provide him with ideas; he is not a poet if they deprive him of ideas.

Man's destiny lies half within himself, half without. To advance in either half at the expense of the other is literally insane.

I am about to die, and that is the hour in which men are gifted with prophetic power.

A good book, in the language of the book-sellers, is a salable one; in that of the curious, a scarce one; in that of men of sense, a useful and instructive one.

Men in all ways are better than they seem.

A skilful man reads his dreams for his selfknowledge; yet not the details, but the quality.

Sanity is very rare; every man almost and every woman has a dash of madness.

Middle age is the time of life that a man first notices in his wife.

If you would know a man, observe how he treats a cat.

Before a man speaks it is always safe to assume that he is a fool. After he speaks, it is seldom necessary to assume it.

Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy.

For the value of everything exists for man only so long as he does not understand it. When he has fully understood, the value is lost, be it the lowest thing or the highest thing.