Quotes about Insight
No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wise men read very sharply all of your private history in your look and gait and behavior.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Before dinner men meet with great inequality of understanding.
- Samuel Johnson
The man who sees two or three generations is like one who sits in the conjuror's booth at a fair, and sees the same tricks two or three times. They are meant to be seen only once.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
For every man the world is as fresh as it was at the first day, and as full of untold novelties for him who has the eyes to see them.
- Thomas Henry Huxley
The wisest man preaches no doctrines; he has no scheme; he sees no rafter, not even a cobweb, against the heavens. It is clear sky.
- Henry David Thoreau
A glimpse is not a vision. But to a man on a mountain road by night, a glimpse of the next three feet of road may matter more than a vision of the horizon.
- CS Lewis
Man must suffer to be wise.
- Cicero
Man can see his reflection in water only when he bends down close to it, and the heart of man, too, must lean down to the heart of his fellow; then it will see itself within his heart.
- Hannah More
Knowledge is to be acquired only by a corresponding experience. How can we know what we are told merely? Each man can interpret another's experience only by his own.
- Henry David Thoreau
A man may just as soon read the Scripture without eyes, as understand the spirit of it without grace.
- JC Ryle
If people take any notice of what we say, we say we've been through the drug scene, man, and there's nothing like being straight.
- John Lennon