Quotes about Insight
It is certain that man never achieves a clear knowledge of himself unless he has first looked upon God's face, and then descends from contemplating him to scrutinize himself.
— John Calvin
The superior man acquaints himself with many sayings of antiquity and many deeds of the past, in order to strengthen his character thereby.
— John Milton
No man was more foolish when he had not a pen in his hand, or more wise when he had
— Samuel Johnson
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