Quotes About Insight

We may feel in control, but we never truly are unless we understand people. Controlling our environment is no longer about blocking the wind, it's about knowing why the serving lady was crying last night, or why a particular guard always loses at cards. Or why your employer hired you in the first place.

As was often the case, the most outspoken man was the least discerning.

It's better if I have a hat...You wanna know a guy? Put on his hat." -Wayne.

Waxillium found himself nodding. "You can be very wise sometimes, Wayne." "It's onnacount of my thinkin', mate," Wayne said, tapping his head, increasing the thickness of his accent. "It's what I do wif my brain. Somma the time, at least.

I told you that I understood crazy," Chet said. "I was wrong. Thank you for the master class.

You could tell a lot about people from the way they talked. You saw their past, their upbringing, their aspirations—all in the words they used.

The measure of a person is not how much they have lived. It is not how easily they jump at a noise or how quick they are to show emotion. It's in how they make use of what life has shown them.

It has been my experience that most problems in life are caused by a lack of information. Many people just don't know the things they need to know. Some ignore the truth; others never understand it.

It was a brutal truth. The best truths, however, were simple.

The only 'unseemly' thing is to not channel your intelligence usefully.

I'm mysterious," Kaladin said. "I used to think you were. Then I found out you don't like good puns—it's truly possible to know too much about somebody.

The measure of a person is not how much they have lived. It is not how easily they jump at a noise or how quick they are to show emotion. It's how they make use of what life has shown them.

Keep forgetting that y'all are freakishly informed about this stuff.

More science happens through lucky accidents than you'd believe, Radiant Lopen," Rushu said. "It makes me wonder how many amazing innovations we've passed up because we were searching for something else, and didn't realize what we'd done.

People learn things from art.

And now here he was. At the end of it all. Understanding so much more, but somehow feeling no wiser.

You remember, you once told me somethin' that made me see the world in an entirely new way." "And that was?" Tress asked. "Here, try on these spectacles.

As for being young," I said, kneeling down, "yeah, I'm aware. Doesn't mean I haven't figured out a few things.

you don't understand a man until you understand what makes him do what he does. Every man is a hero in his own story, Princess.

Not that he was a fool. No, the book was full of insight. Disturbing insight. The Lord Mistborn advocated gathering the Metalborn who were elderly or terminally ill, then asking them to sacrifice themselves to make these Ã¢â'¬Â¦ spikes, which could in turn be used to create individuals of great power.

Most people make themselves look bad. I just stand to the side and don't get in the way.

information is worthless unless we use it to make judgments.

There's always another perspective, if you look hard enough.

Make friends with physicists and mathematicians, writers. It pays off.)