Quotes About Insight

And verily, a woman need know but one man well, in order to understand all men; whereas a man may know all women and understand not one of them.

Man judges of nature in relation to itself; the angelic spirit judges of it in relation to heaven. In short, to the spirits everything speaks.

I have seen many a bear led by a man: but I never before saw a man led by a bear.

It is for the artist... in portrait painting to put on canvas something more than the face the model wears for that one day; to paint the man, in short, as well as his features.

The fool strikes. The wise man smiles, and watches, and learns. Then strikes.

A man doesn't learn to understand anything unless he loves it.

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

It is certain that man never achieves a clear knowledge of himself unless he has first looked upon God's face, and then descends from contemplating him to scrutinize himself.

A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn.

Learn to know every man under you, get under his skin, know his faults. Then cater to him - with kindness or roughness as his case may demand.

There are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion.

Experience makes more timid men than it does wise ones.

The man who gets bit twice by the same dog is better adapted for that kind of business than any other.

I never had a man come to me for advice yet, but what I soon discovered that he thought more of his own opinion than he did of mine.

I find a woman's point of view much grander and finer than a man's.

Men only know if you tell them. Even though you probably want them to just know, they won't.

The value of history. ..is that it teaches us what man has done and thus what man is.

New organs of perception come into being as a result of necessity. Therefore, O man, increase your necessity, so that you may increase your perception.

Were there no men of vision, all who are blind would be dead.

That observation which is called knowledge of the world will be found much more frequently to make men cunning than good.

No man was more foolish when he had not a pen in his hand, or more wise when he had

Everybody knows worse of himself than he knows of other men.

Man, you're no smarter than me. You're just a fancier kind of stupid.

It is not from the tall crowded workhouse of prosperity that men first or clearest see the eternal stars of heaven.