Quotes About Insight

thanks to the many police officers who over the years have given me an insight into their jobs and lives. I also want to ackowledge Tom Mangold

Breadth and depth. What the editors want.

I must be able to tell more than what happened. I must tell why. It's breadth and depth again—the ol' B and D—and I am used to that.

A veces creo que conozco a los desconocidos mejor que a nadie, mejor que a mí mismo. Aprendo mucho de la gente en mi trabajo. A veces pienso que ni siquiera tengo vida. Solo tengo la vida de los demás…

Michael Connelly

DSS—didn't see shit.

can give you whatever science

Sometimes knowledge was an awful thing.

he had come to believe that parents see their children not only as they are but

They don't have intelligence. They have what I call 'thintelligence.' They see the immediate situation. They think narrowly and they call it 'being focused.' They don't see the surround. They don't see the consequences.

The minute we look, we cease being afraid.

There's one problem with all psychological knowledge - nobody can apply it to themselves. People can be incredibly astute about the shortcomings of their friends, spouses, children. But they have no insight into themselves at all. The same people who are coldly clear-eyed about the world around them have nothing but fantasies about themselves. Psychological knowledge doesn't work if you look in a mirror. This bizarre fact is, as far as I know, unexplained.

Understanding is a delaying tactic.

In his view, a theory was nothing more than a substitute for experience put forth by someone who didn't know what he was talking about.

if you don't understand something, you can't approximate it. You're really just guessing.

There's one problem with all psychological knowledge—nobody can apply it to themselves. People can be incredibly astute about the shortcomings of their friends, spouses, children. But they have no insight into themselves at all. The same people who are coldly clear-eyed about the world around them have nothing but fantasies about themselves. Psychological knowledge doesn't work if you look in a mirror. This bizarre fact is, as far as I know, unexplained.

Nothing is obvious.

I want a news service that tells me what no one knows but is true nonetheless.

They believed that prediction was just a function of keeping track of things. If you knew enough, you could predict anything

The problem with the truth is, it's so often mild and clichéd.

Visions are answers. Answers imply questions. It

God save us from people who think they're smarter than they actually are.

I know you. I've seen it. And, knowing all, I release you.

La gente es más de lo que creemos. Y también menos. La clave está en entender ambas cosas.