Quotes About Insight

A veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes.

Take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then say it with the utmost levity.

When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truth.

You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.

Education is learning what you didn't know you didn't know.

There has been foolish talk about audiences having an average twelve-year-old mind: it just isn't true. They are older than anybody, and wiser.

The best prophet of the future is the past.

It takes knowledge and experience to say precisely and consisely what is true and what is needed. Scholarship often excels in lofty learning and deep digging to emphasise what we knew all along. Adrian Hawkes' little book, based on real life, bring us what so many don't know and greatly need to know. I would not be ashamed to put it alongside many weighty volumes on my study shelves.

Some years ago a psychiatrist had told me that finding out things other people didn't want known was my way of trying to stay even with a society filled with people bigger than I was. The remark had been meant to startle, to provoke insight, and eventually to alter my behavior. Instead, I'd simply found that I thoroughly agreed with him and had gone out after a private investigator's license. [Dr. Robert Frederickson AKA Mongo]

A book is a mirror; if an ass peers into it, you can not expect an apostle to peer out.

For me, fantasy must be about something, otherwise it's foolishness... ultimately it must be about human beings, it must be about the human condition, it must be another look at infinity, it must be another way of seeing the paradox of existence.

Failure teaches you everything—you learn nothing from success.

Be there a will, and wisdom finds a way.

To show the world what long experience gains, requires not courage, though it calls for pains but at life's outset to inform mankind is a bold effort of a valiant mind.

The genius of Monte Carlo—and its search-engine descendants—lies in the ability to extract meaningful solutions, in the face of overwhelming information, by recognizing that meaning resides less in the data at the end points and more in the intervening paths.

It is reasonable to ask whether this book is necessary. Over its seventy-five years of existence, the Study of Adult Development has so far produced 9 books and 150 articles, including quite a number of my own (see Appendix F). Why

Was this his face, and these the finding eyes That plucked a new world from the rolling seas?

It should be remembered that while the Baptist's ministry in the Synoptics has several points of contact with contemporary eschatological and apocalyptic thought, it has even more striking elements of divergence. "The essential mystery of prophetic insight and divine inspiration" cannot be explained by the limitations of a naturalistic methodology.

One way of getting an idea of our fellow-countrymen's miseries is to go and look at their pleasures.

In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.

To judge wisely, we must know how things appear to the unwise.

And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.

I am not imposed upon by fine words; I can see what actions mean.

From horses we may learn not only about the horse itself but also about animals in general, indeed about ourselves and about life as a whole.