Quotes About Insight

Cambiando el contexto en que se comparan dos cosas se ocultan ciertos rasgos y emergen otros a la superficie

It confirmed Biederman's sense that "most advances in science come not from eureka moments but from 'hmmm, that's funny.

They collected great heaps of data: choices people had actually made. "Always keep one hand firmly on data," Amos liked to say.

even in success Markovich witnessed the dysfunction of American government.

Much later, he heard Murray Gell-Mann, a Nobel laureate in physics, hold forth on seemingly every subject under the sun. After Gell-Man was done, Amos said, "You know, Murray, there is no one in the world who is as smart as you think you are." Once

A part of good science is to see what everyone else can see but think what no one else has ever said.

recalls Avishai Margalit. "You discussed people. It was a constant thing, a constant puzzle: What makes others tick? It comes from the shtetl. Jews were petty merchants. They had to assess others, all the time. Who is dangerous? Who is not dangerous? Who will repay the debt, who won't repay the debt? People were basically dependent on their psychological judgment.

to find the phenomenon and then explain it in a way that applies to other situations

His willingness to throw open a window on the American financial world, and to show people what it has become, still takes my breath away.

The only thing history teaches us, a wise man once said, is that history doesn't teach us anything. O

A part of good science is to see what everyone else can see but think what no one else has ever said. The difference between being very smart and very foolish is often very small.

You know when you're with someone who is intellectually powerful: You just know it.

Knowledge is literally prediction," said Morey. "Knowledge is anything that increases your ability to predict the outcome. Literally everything you do you're trying to predict the right thing.

Hannah's dad had a habit of never walking home the same way twice, with the intention of giving her a sense of how it all fitted together. What he'd actually achieved was to fail to provide a dependable route. As she stood confused on the corner, turning in a circle, it struck Hannah this happened all the time - grown-ups trying to teach you things in the wrong way, their way, that only made sense if you already knew what you were trying to learn.

Ignorance isn't always bliss. Sometimes it's just a huge pain in the arse

Ask very pointed questions. Sharp as sword blades, or laser blasts, if you catch my meaning.

Browning: 'Justinian's Pandects only make precise / What simply sparkled in men's eyes before'.

Everyone has to scratch on walls somewhere or they go crazy

What is interesting and important happens mostly in secret, in places where there is no power. Nothing much of lasting value ever happens at the head table, held together by a familiar rhetoric. Those who already have power continue to glide along the familiar rut they have made for themselves.

A blind lover, don't know what I love till I write it out

if you do not plunder the past, the absence feeds on you

The important thing is to be able to live in a place or a situation where you must use your sixth sense all the time.

I can never understand someone by his strengths. Nothing is revealed there. I can only understand people by their weaknesses.

No one goes back to the husband. He knew that much about love and human nature.