Quotes About Insight

No matter who you meet in life, you take something from them, positive or negative.

Their goal is to deepen our comprehension of the discussions themselves instead of justifying particular views involved in current debates.

You can tell all you need to know about someone from the way cows are around him.

Learn everything you can - everything. And then use all that you have learned to grow up too be a wise and good man.

You don't have to say ridiculous things twice, Holling. Once is more than enough.

That's the Teacher Gene at work, giving its bearer an extra sense. It's a little frightening. Maybe that's how people decide to become teachers. They have that extra sense, and once they have it, and know that they have it, they don't have any choice except to become a teacher.

Like I said, you can tell a whole lot about someone from the way cows are around him.

I believe that our epiphanies or intuitive insights often reflect who we are, or what we are capable of doing, in unexpected ways.

While facts can provide a plan, only understanding can provide the purpose. What is understanding, and why is it important?

An hour spent in any bookstore will also tune you in to what the world is thinking (and writing about), what is hot, what is popular, what the trends are. Just browsing, without even buying anything, is an education in itself.

You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards." – Steve Jobs

The farther back you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see." – Winston Churchill

You cannot know where you are going unless you know where you are coming from.

The farther back you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see." – Winston Churchill "You

The highest art of the chessplayer lies in not allowing your opponent to show you what he can do.

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook." — William James

Voltaire once wrote, "Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers." Sir Francis Bacon added, "A prudent question is one-half of wisdom." Indira Gandhi concluded that "the power to question is the basis of all human progress." Great questions are clearly the quickest path to great answers.

rattled and rocked the theater. Considered one of the funniest movies of all time, it also sprinkled in unexpected doses of wisdom and insight. In one memorable scene, Curly, the gritty cowboy played by the late Jack Palance, and city slicker Mitch, played by Billy Crystal, leave the group to search for stray cattle. Although they had clashed for most of the movie, riding along together they finally connect over a conversation about life. Suddenly Curly reins his horse

The real solutions we seek are almost always hiding in plain sight; unfortunately, they've usually been obscured by an unbelievable amount of bunk, an astounding flood of "common sense" that turns out to be nonsense. Ever

The person making the discovery gets some new piece of information and sees how it combines with other information to form a new idea. Sometimes the person sees a new way to combine different kinds of information even if none of them are new.

People who can pick up on trends, spot patterns, wonder about irregularities, and notice coincidences are an important resource.

Intuition is the use of patterns they've already learned, whereas insight is the discovery of new patterns.

The ancient Greeks worshipped the human capacity for insight. Scott Berkun, in examining the topic of innovation, pointed out that the Greek religious pantheon included nine goddesses who represented the creative spirit. Leading philosophers such as Socrates and Plato visited temples dedicated to these goddesses, these muses, who were a source of inspiration. We honor this tradition when we visit a museum, a "place of the muses," and when we enjoy music, the "art of the muses

Martin Chalfie is a perfect example of the experience most people have of "connecting the dots" and solving a problem by being exposed to more ideas. Like Chalfie, we get a new piece of information that combines with other information we already have, and, presto, we make a discovery.