Quotes About Insight

Men are salamanders in My terrarium, trying to fathom the events beyond the glass.

He was drunk enough that he was willing to share his wisdom with me.

Some very famous directors have started in the mail room, which is just getting inside the studio, getting to know people, getting to know the routine.

It's more complicated than that." TL in "The Rhetoric of Religion

Generative ideas emerge from joint thinking, from significant conversations, and from sustained, shared struggles to achieve new insights by partners in thought.

Problem is, "everyone else" is as crowd-like as "everyone." Their opinions usually aren't unique, and their analysis often isn't any broader or better than the main crowd

The text contains no literary criticism. I wanted to describe books, not to be clever at their expense.

I felt like I was seeing Shannon through a new lens, undistracted by Jennifer's nuclear glow. I could see how pretty she really was, how kind her eyes were.

Ah I can see that.... You can see anything once you've been told it's there to see

Show me a congenital eavesdropper with the instincts of a peeping Tom and I will show you the makings of a dramatist.

At its best drama delightfully informs.. This may be a paraphrase but I think it captures the essence of what he said; provided he did say it and I'm not imagining things.

A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car.

The nice thing about quotes is that they give us a nodding acquaintance with the originator which is often socially impressive.

Software development is a game of insight, and insight comes to the prepared, rested, relaxed mind.

unsure how to respond. "But I guess we knew that without strutting up here to have a look. Just thought you ought to see it." Norm walked away,

Our elders told us this was the best way to deal with white people. Be silent until they get nervous, then they will start talking. They will keep talking, and if you stay silent, they will say too much. Then you will be able to see into their hearts and know what they really mean. Then you will know what to do." "I imagine it works," I said.

A firm's income statement may be, likened to a bikini-what it reveals is interesting but what it conceals is vital.

In crowds it is stupidity and not mother-wit that is accumulated," Gustave Le Bon noted in his 1895 classic on crowd psychology.

The mythologies represent genuine reflection and not a little insight. They reveal man's simple, naïve consciousness busying itself with the explanation of things.

Science is a subordinate category. When science offers itself as the final stage or form of knowing, it is guilty of a false quantity, in that it puts the accent, which belongs elsewhere, upon the penultimate.

The view from space is like having a globe on your desk -- it's a broadening experience.

The future is not what we make but what we see

siempre lo había visto desde el mismo ángulo, y ahora le descubría aspectos diferentes, casi desconocidos.

cayó en la trampa de la intuición que vuela a oscuras y da en el blanco antes de que el entendimiento pueda empezar a hacer lo suyo...