Maya Angelou Quotes

There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.

Intelligence recognizes what has happened. Genius recognizes what will happen.

A nose that can see is worth two that sniff.

It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ.

Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.

Seek wisdom, not knowledge. Knowledge is of the past, Wisdom is of the future.

Men's wisdom increases with reference to what lies before them.

When you have watched someone long enough, you know what they can do.

Hindsight is good, foresight is better; but second sight is best of all.

wisdom ain't seeing what's in your face, but recognizing what's about to come!

To name a thing is easy: the difficulty is to discern it before its appearance.

The best vision is insight.

I love that perhaps we don't see the things that are there because we have no yardstick to see things by, to compare them.

Seeing through is rarely seeing into.

To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.

I have one talent, and that's figuring out what people want about two minutes before they know it themselves.

I think there's a knowingness in my face.

If you don't know about it, you can't get it.

Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away.

It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges.

Youth sees too far to see how near it is To seeing farther.

I often see through things right to the apparition itself.

To see things in the seed, that is genius.

Who is the wise man? He who sees what's going to be born.

The greatest gift is our own eyes, sense of smell, and abilities to deduce.