Quotes About Insight

I've always believed that there are funny people everywhere, but they're just not comedians. In fact, some of my best comedic inspirations were not professional entertainers.

Our beliefs act as lenses. These lenses can help us see things we can't otherwise see, but they can also block us from seeing parts of reality.

The more you learn, the more you become aware of what you have yet to learn.

I think in the NFL knowledge is power, and you try to get the knowledge by whatever means.

People are puzzles that way. We are complicated mechanisms. Just when you think that you have got a certain person all figured out they go and they change on you and you have to go and start that whole figuring-out process all over again from the beginning.

He took the time—a lot of time—to show me those few little things. They were little things to him, even though Fairchild and Texas Instruments had just developed the transistor only a decade earlier.

All this time, and the solution was as easy as asking for it. Wasn't that profound?

I've learned something about my own hunches: the only time they turn out to be meaningful is when I ignore them.

I'm generalizing from one example, here, but everyone generalizes from one example. At least, I do.

Staring into the dragon's maw, one quickly learns wisdom.

Thoughts are like lenses through which we look at our world.

Most of us want to fix or change the world in some fashion. But to change the world, you first have to understand it.

A rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything.

An expert must be BOLD if he hopes to alchemize his homespun theory into conventional wisdom.

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance. —Franklin P. Adams

Men occassionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry on as if nothing had happened. -Sir Winston Churchill

Why, without a sense of humour, you are blind to so much in the world. To human nature. To the absurdity of so much that we say and do.

Don't worry. I am like most people. I can keep my eyes and still see nothing.

Fear bespeaks of wisdom. Recognition of responsibility.

You have learned much, Karsa Orlong." "I have, T'lan Imass. As you shall witness.

A civilization can easily drown in what it knows as in what doesn't know. Consider,' he continued, Gotho's Folly. Gotho's curse was in being too aware - of everything. Every permutation, every potential. Enough to poison every scan he cast on the world. It availed him naught, and worse, he was aware of even that.

Wisdom did not belong to mortals, and those whom others called wise were only those who, through grim experience, had touched the very edges of unwelcome truths. For the wise, even joy was tinged with sorrow.

But lessons only became lessons when one has reached the state of humility required to heed them.

Shakespeare has great ability to skirt around a subject and portray human nature.