Quotes About Insight

The heart of wisdom is tolerance. I think.

Without a sense of humor, you are blind to so much in this world. To human nature. To the absurdity of so much that we say and do.

Kruppe nodded. "Kruppe is no fool, K'rul. He openly opposes no one, and he finds power a thing to be avoided at all costs.

Friend, I have remembered something.

Kulp saw something crumbling into ruins behind the lad's light-blue eyes.

Omens are for fools, but every truth of the future resides in the present, if only we have the will to see

Only fools think the past is invisible

Look into our friend's eyes, Karsa Orlong. Look closely." "I see nothing." "Delum sees the same, Warleader. He stares at... nothing. Unlike you, however, he does not turn away from it. Instead, he sees with complete comprehension. Sees, and is terrified.

History comforts the dull-witted

Mammot's face crinkled into a wise smile.

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.

One can find precious value in brevity

Kruppe is wise – wise enough to keep silent when silence is called for, and yet wiser still to speak when wise words are required. Wisdom, after all, is Kruppe's blood brother.

it is knowledge that makes one aware of his or her own chains.' 'Knowledge only makes the eyes see what was there all along

Pou?ení z historie je to, že se z ní nikdy nikdo nepou?í.

Beware the drunkard's wisdom.

Why are dumb brutes so damned smart, anyway?' 'Why are us smart folk so often stupidly brutal, Quick Ben?' Trull asked. 'Stop trying to confuse me in my state of animal terror, Edur.

Wise words are like arrows flung at your forehead. What do you do? Why, you duck of course.

Such is the vastness of his genius that he can outwit even himself.

Astrology is just a finger pointing at reality.

Hopfield's insight was that self-organized criticality might be intimately linked to synchronization in pulse-coupled oscillator systems. The tantalizing possibility of a relationship between those two areas spawned dozens of papers exploring the possible ties.

math always involves both invention and discovery: we invent the concepts but discover their consequences.

Creation is intuitive; reason comes later.

and out comes another empirical truth, possibly a new one, a fact about the universe that nobody knew before (like the existence of electromagnetic waves).