Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Quotes

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

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

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

Knowledge, may it be said, is higher than magic and is more to be sought. It is quite possible to see what is happening and yet not know what is forward, for while seeing is believing, it does not follow that either seeing or believing is knowing.

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

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.

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

What is originality? To see something that has no name as yet and hence cannot be mentioned although it stares us all in the face. The way men usually are, it takes a name to make something visible for them.

Some people cannot see a good thing when it is right here, right now. Others can sense a good thing coming when it is days, months, or miles away.

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.

You can observe a lot by watching.

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

The wise man reads both books and life itself.

A nose that can see is worth two that sniff.

I think there's a knowingness in my face.

The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely.

To look is one thing, to see is another thing; to see is very difficult, normally; to look is to try to see. I have looked and I hope I have seen.

When you're sent something and read it, either you can see it while you read it, or you can't.

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

It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

People who know, know. The others, it really doesn't matter.

Every closed eye is not sleeping, and every open eye is not seeing.