Quotes About Insight

We all suffer. If a man's wise, he learns from it.

As the past has ceased to throw its light upon the future, the mind of man wanders in obscurity.

Man's progress is but a gradual discovery that his questions have no meaning.

Knowing what is right does not make a sagacious man.

Man first begins to philosophize when the necessities of life are supplied.

A man with so large a brain must have something in it.

"As for that," said Waldenshare, "sensible men are all of the same religion." "Pray, what is that?" inquired the Prince. "Sensible men never tell."

Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.

The more intelligence one has, the more people one finds original. Commonplace people see no difference between men.

He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.

Any one can give advice, such as it is, but only a wise man knows how to profit by it.

I have no great quickness of apprehension or wit which is so remarkable in some clever men, for instance Huxley

It is surely a matter of common observation that a man who knows no one thing intimately has no views worth hearing on things in general.

The world is waiting for men with vision - it is not interested in mere pictures.

There may be men who act without understanding why. I do not. To listen much, pick out the good and follow it; to see much and ponder it: this comes next to understanding.

The best-informed man is not necessarily the wisest. Indeed there is a danger that precisely in the multiplicity of his knowledge he will lose sight of what is essential.

Sickness sensitizes man for observation, like a photographic plate.

Why then should witless man so much misweene That nothing is but that which he hath seene?

Put yourself in the other man's place and then you will know why he thinks certain things and does certain deeds.

To know how to say what other people only think, is what makes poets and sages; and to dare to say what others only dare to think, makes men martyrs or reformers.

Don't criticize that man unless you have walked in his shoes.

Other men look up and down, left and right; but men like us are different. We are visionaries.

There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.

Brutes by their natural instinct have produced many discoveries, whereas men by discussion and the conclusions of reason have given birth to few or none.