Quotes About Insight

It is ignorance that is the mother of all problems, and the only thing that can overcome it is learning.

we can only win by innovating and understanding our customers, which we can only do by mastering data.

DevOps isn't about automation, just as astronomy isn't about telescopes.

but as they say, you always have to watch out for the quiet ones. I take a quick shower. I run into the kitchen and grab a couple of sticks of the string cheese our son loves to eat. I take these

Inspiration is usually stingy.

World-Honored One, now you should preach the Dharma of supreme awakening for our sake. Once we have heard it, we will study and practice it together. World-Honored One, we are determined to gain the insight of a tathagata. What is deep in our hearts the Buddha must already know.

The number of eons since that buddha passed into extinction until now still vastly exceeds that number by innumerable, unlimited hundreds of thousands of billions of eons. Yet by the power of the Tathagata's insight, I observe that distant time as if it were today.

You think you know it, but you always find out new stuff.

He didn't want to think about the implications of this mysterious ability to see events that occurred in places where he wasn't physically present. What did they call it on those late night radio shows back in the twenty-first century? Oh yes, remote viewing.

There is no magic. There is only knowledge, more or less hidden.

Oh well, hindsight always had all the best ideas.

Now, tell me, Ray, why is it that a thing's always in the last place you look?" "The malice of inanimate objects," Irene answered.

Sure. I've been to hundreds of morgues. Thousands of them, in fact.

the task is not so much to see what no one yet has seen but to think what nobody yet has thought about that which everybody sees.

Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

Some people need a poke in the eye to show them the right direction, others simply need pointing in the right direction. It is a question of having the wisdom to know when to point and when to poke.

Visionaries are that rare breed of people who have the insight to match up an emerging technology to a strategic opportunity, the temperament to translate that insight into a high-visibility, high-risk project, and the charisma to get the rest of their organization to buy into that project. They are the early adopters of high-tech products.

In December 1941, when Australians began to sense that they were plunged into a new environment, the spectacles they had carried out from Britain were obsolete. They needed spectacles that would correct short-sightedness. They had to see the environment they were in as clearly as the environment they had left across the world.

That "feeld hath eyen, and the wode hath eres."

They take it wisly, faire, and softe.

Reule wel thyself, that other folk canst rede.And trouthe thee shal delivere, it is no drede.

My wit is thynne.

Ful wys is he that can himselven knowe (Very wise is he that can know himself.)

the greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people