Dan Levy Quotes

Preconceived notions are the locks on the door to wisdom.

I didn't look very sensitive and they didn't know me very well.

Some folks are wise and some are otherwise.

Some people have more sense than other people think they have.

To prejudge other men's notions before we have looked into them is not to show the darkness but to put out our own eyes.

Again, if you only know what you know, you don't know if something's good or bad. You don't have perspective.

To judge someone before understanding that person is a form of human rejection and feeds upon itself. It intensifies personal insecurities, necessitating more judgment (prejudice) and less understanding. The processes continue in this vicious cycle.

Wise is the man who does not disdain any character and instead, examining him with a searching look, plumbs him to the very main-springs of his being.

A man sees what he wants to see, And disregards the rest.

When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.

I feel increasingly like age is very irrelevant. Quite often, cynicism is confused with wisdom, and my scorn is confused with a knowing, which I don't have.

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

I like to watch mankind in its futile attempt to understand the unknown, when they don't even understand that which they know.

If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.

There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand.

A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes anothers.

I think a lot of times we don't pay enough attention to people with a positive attitude because we assume they are naive or stupid or unschooled.

If you would judge, understand.

He who closes his eyes sees nothing, even in the full light of day.

Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.

The owners and managers were too stupid to realize we had brains.

It's easy to see the faults in people I know; it's hardest to see the good. Especially when the good isn't there.

There are some persons in this world, who, unable to give better proof of being wise, take a strange delight in showing what they think they have sagaciously read in mankind by uncharitable suspicions of them.