Quotes About Insight

We have been blind somewhat; blind after the manner of men, since when we can look back we see what we might have seen looking forward if we had been able to see what we might have seen! Alas, but that sentence is a puddle; is it not?

An unread book does nobody any good

Most people worth knowing enjoy reading.

Being smart can make happiness elusive. Being REALLY smart can help you find it in more places than most.

even misplaced faith can help us gain knowledge. We try to be smart about where we put our faith and we adjust as we learn more.

Learn to recognize power in others. Become more conscious of your own power. It's there.

But I'd rather work smart than hard.

Smart people learn from their mistakes. But the real sharp ones learn from the mistakes of others. Don't pout; you're about to see something impressive. And it won't even give you nightmares.

One eye is open to all truth, the other closed to all deception.

Grandpa Garnier: Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.

Sometimes gut instinct is what determines the direction we should take.

Open the hood of a car and it will tell you something about the people who designed it, is just one of many phrases I'm tortured by.

Baby, Andy once said that beauty is a sign of intelligence.' She turns slowly to look at me. 'Who, Victor? Who? Andy who?' She coughs, blowing her nose. 'Andy Kaufman? Andy Griffith? Who in the hell told you this? Andy Rooney?' 'Warhol,' I say softly, hurt. 'Baby...

The better you look, the more you see

Sometimes, we become so familiar with the primal sacred story of the Bible that we need some fresh takes on it, telling us the same thing in different ways, or giving us some new vantage points to see what was always there, things we'd missed before.

trust in the process is another way of saying to trust in an intelligence wiser than current human intelligence

Howard Thurman, one of America's greatest theologians said, "By some amazing but vastly creative spiritual insight the slave undertook the redemption of a religion that the master had profaned in his midst.

The beauty of physics, its raison d'etre, is that it offers insight into why things in the universe behave the way they do. The ability to predict behavior is a big part of the power of physics, but the heart of physics would be lost if it didn't give us a deep understanding of the hidden reality underlying what we observe.

The mathematical analyses pinned down the quantity of information a given black hole contains, without providing insight into the information itself.

I have seen into the heart of the universe.

The unexpected is not always a surprise. —Mentat observation

Despite their biological flaws, human beings continue to see things that our most sophisticated sensors cannot detect, and they understand strange concepts that gelcircuitry minds cannot comprehend. It is no surprise, then, that so many of them go insane. —Erasmus Dialogues

Innovations seem to have a life and a sentience of their own. When conditions are right, a radical new idea—a paradigm shift—may appear simultaneously from many minds at once. Or it may remain secret in the thoughts of one man for years, decades, centuries…until someone else thinks of the same thing.

Knowledge is pitiless.