Quotes About Insight

No, Cassius; for the eye sees not itself, But by reflection, by some other things.

More fools know Jack Fool than Jack Fool knows.

Jesters do oft prove prophets.

For I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth, Action, nor utterance, nor the power of speech, To stir men's blood: I only speak right on; I tell you that which you yourselves do know;

for the eye sees not itself, but by reflection, by some other things.

Modest doubt is call'd the beacon of the wise.

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

How far your eyes may pierce I cannot tell. Striving to better, oft we mar what's well.

Demand me nothing: what you know, you know.

yet you see how this world goes. GLOS.: I see it feelingly.

But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.

to early seen unknown...and known to late

William Shakespeare

Non v'è arte buona a leggere nel volto i disegni della mente.

Were all the letters sun, I could not see one.

Of all knowledge, the wise and good seek mostly to know themselves.

William Shakespeare

Hear the meaning within the word.

There's meaning in thy snores.

Knock... and ask your heart what it doth know.

Men may construe things, after their fashion / Clean them from the purpose of the things themselves -Cicero

All that follow their noses are led by their eyes but blind men; and there's not a nose among twenty but can smell him that's stinking.

A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.

Why, stand-under and under-stand is all one.