Quotes About Insight

It is a very lonely life that a man leads, who becomes aware of truths before their times.

The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant.

Nothing shows our weakness more than to be so sharp-sighted at spying other men's faults, and so purblind about our own.

He that studies books alone, will know how things ought to be; and he that studies men, will know how things are.

Gentlemen are overestimated, that is my experience.

A man who reviews the old so as to find out the new is qualified to teach others.

Eyesight for an eagle is what thought is to a man.

The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave.

The wise man must be wise before, not after, the event.

Genius is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one, and the man of talent sees two or three, plus the ability to register that multiple perception in the material of his art.

Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible.

To be a great man it is necessary to know how to profit by the whole of our good fortune.

There are but very few men clever enough to know all the mischief they do.

No one can draw more out of things, books included, than he already knows. A man has no ears for that to which experience has given him no access.

Let no man under value the price of a virtuous woman's counsel.

What passes for woman's intuition is more often intrinsically nothing more than man's transparency.

When you know what a man wants you know who he is, and how to move him.

A man who says he can see through a woman is missing a lot.-Groucho Marx A man's only as old as the woman he feels.

We cannot learn men from books.

But when a man has had only four hours' sleep he isn't sentimental. He sees things as they are: that is to say, he sees them in the garish light of justice; hideous, witless justice.

Indeed, it is not intellect, but intuition which advances humanity. Intuition tells man his purpose in this life.

Man's real genius and knowledge remains preserved in books

I wanted to live the inner life of every man I saw, look at the world through his eyes.

The woman sees, I suppose, and the man does not.