Quotes About Insight

Nobody had to tell Ramona about disappointment.

Miss Binney was not like most grown-ups. Miss Binney understood.

Ellen might have known her best friend would think of something like that.

sidewalk, she realized that something

It is always quietly thrilling to find yourself looking at a world you know well but have never seen from such an angle before.

The real significance of Magellan's voyage was not that it was the first to circumnavigate the planet, but that it was the first to realize just how big that planet was.

explanations, like dreams, only make sense while they're happening.

There is actually a certain value in not finding anything," he said. "It helps cosmologists to work out the rate at which galaxies are evolving.

How stupid of me not to have thought of it!" T. H. Huxley cried upon reading On the Origin of Species. It is a view that has been echoed ever since. Interestingly

Wallace's theory was, by Wallace's own admission, the result of a flash of insight; Darwin's was the product of years of careful, plodding, methodical thought. It was all crushingly unfair.

it was a pretty good insight into how unattractive science can get when you're playing at a certain level.

The Dunning-Kruger Effect is essentially being too stupid to appreciate how stupid you are. That sounds like a pretty good description of the world to me. So

Part of the power of travel is that you stand a good chance of being hollowed out by it.

Edison was good at making things the world didn't yet have but terrible at seeing how it would choose to make use of them.

I mentioned my observation that the world seems to be filling up with imbeciles. They explained to me that this is simply an affliction of age.

Follow the trend lines, not the headlines.

Her close-cropped hair is now completely gray. Her eyes are probing but kind.

He likes to wear bow ties so we'll all know how intelligent he is. Personally, I've seen Post-it notes with more depth.

When Sun Tzu said, "Keep your friends close and your enemies closer," he had a point.

only stupid one's

I had it perfect the first time but I had to lose it to know it.

But giving people more information can help them make better choices.

vision is the God-given ability to see possible solutions to the everyday problems of life.

that at a certain point people need more than vision.