Quotes About Insight

First comes intuition. Rigor comes later.

Reality Testing—the ability to see things as they actually are, rather than the way you wish or fear they might be;

Patrick: How do you know so much about dating? You're a teenage girl. Tess: Because I'm a teenage girl.

mentor once told me that every dead end shows you more clearly the pattern of the labyrinth, that each one you encounter gives you one more piece of information that'll help you as you methodically fail your way to success. That's how he put it: failing your way to success.

the more disorganized your brain is, the smarter you are.

So part of the secret of hunch cultivation is simple: write everything down.

It's easier to act out of ignorance than it is to become educated.

The broader one's understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have.

Every problem has a better solution when you start thinking about it differently than the normal way.

It's your life story if you're a mathematician: every time you discover something neat, you discover that Gauss or Newton knew it in his crib.

Peter Samson and his friends had grown up with a specific relationship to the world, wherein things had meaning only if you found out how they worked.

a?a cum grânele noi ies din p?mânturile vechi, la fel ?i "toat? aceast? nou? ?tiin??" pe care oamenii o înva?? apare tot din b?trânele hâr?oage. Geoffrey Chaucer,1380, "Parlament al p?s?rilor

No one individual had one one-thousandth of the knowledge necessary to fully understand it all.

To achieve complete understanding necessitates understanding increasingly more and more, and the combination of everything you need to understand to achieve complete understanding quickly becomes more than you can bear without, well, exploding.

I think documentaries are the greatest way to educate an entire generation that doesn't often look back to learn anything about the history that provided a safe haven for so many of us today.

There is a spooky quality about the ability of mathematicians to get there ahead of physicists. It's as if when Neil Armstrong first landed on the moon he found in the lunar dust the footsteps of Jules Verne.

Nothing about the practice of modern science is obvious to someone who has never seen it done.

If it's a penny for your thoughts and you put in your two cents worth, then someone, somewhere is making a penny.

Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.

I'm a peripheral visionary.

I saw a man with a wooden leg and a real foot.

I was a peripheral visionary. I could see the future, but only way off to the side.

Write from Beyond what you know. From the authority of your senses." -author of Meditations in Green

Just because a man lacks the use of his eyes doesn't mean he lacks vision.