Quotes about Insight
He who hangs on the errors of the ignorant multitude, must not be counted among great men.
— Cicero
A man with so large a brain must have something in it.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
Study men, not historians.
— Harry S. Truman
The Bible is like a telescope. If a man looks through his telescope, then he sees worlds beyond; but, if he looks at his telescope, then he does not see anything but that.
— Henry Ward Beecher
If a man can have only one kind of sense, let him have common sense. If he has that and uncommon sense too, he is not far from genius.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Nine tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.
— Theodore Roosevelt
i am part of everything that i have read
— Theodore Roosevelt
Seek not to know who said this or that, but take note of what has been said.
— Thomas a Kempis
Ask not, who hath said this or that, but look to what he says.
— Thomas a Kempis
given to thee. If it seemeth to thee that thou knowest many things, and understandest them well, know also that there are many more things which thou knowest
— Thomas a Kempis
The more a man hath unity and simplicity in himself, the more things and the deeper things he understandeth;
— Thomas a Kempis
Love follows knowledge.
— St. Thomas Aquinas