Quotes About Insight

In the clairvoyance of this despair he had seen how much his folly had already damaged both of them.

There is no light where I am. If any comes it is not enlightenment but lightning.

The painter and the writer are not just copyists or even illusionists, but through some deeper vision of their subject-matter may become privileged truth tellers.

We all live in the interstices of each other's lives, and we would all get a surprise if we could see everything.

writing about drugs is like that though, isn't it? You can just tell when someone is writing about drugs and they've never really done them. It screams out at you. That's something where I believe you have to have been there to really get it, y'know?

They filed out into the cold night at closing time, heading for Begbie's place with a carry-out. They'd already spent twelve hours drinking and pontificating about Matty's life and his motivations. In truth, the more reflective of them realised, all their insights pooled and processed, did little to illuminate the cruel puzzle of it all. They were no wiser now than at the start.

Nae cunt kens

Awareness is seventy percent of the solution.

What we know of others is our personal secret.

Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments.

It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.

The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.

The most hopelessly stupid man is he who is not aware he is wise.

It is remarkable, Hardin, how the religion of science has grabbed hold.

The human mind works at low efficiency. Twenty percent is the figure usually given. When, momentarily, there is a flash of greater power, it is termed a hunch, or insight, or intuition.

It's the writing that teaches you.

All knowledge is one. When a light brightens and illuminates a corner of a room, it adds to the general illumination of the entire room. Over and over again, scientific discoveries have provided answers to problems that had no apparent connection with the phenomena that gave rise to the discovery.

It is the invariable lesson to humanity that distance in time, and in space as well, lends focus.

The analysis was the most difficult of the three by all odds. When Holk, after two days of steady work, succeeded in eliminating meaningless statements, vague gibberish, useless qualifications - in short, all the goo and dribble - he found he had nothing left. Everything cancelled out. Lord Dorwin, gentlemen, in five days of discussion didn't say one damned thing, and said it so you never noticed.

People say 'It's as plain as the noise on your face.' But how much of the nose on your face can you see, unless someone hold a mirror up to you?

The secret of the successful fool is that he's no fool at all.

Your phraseology is obscure, but I think I understand.

Baley's lips twitched. He had guessed that in some ways robotic logic must fall short and he was convinced of it now. As the roboticist had said: Logical but not reasonable.

Consider the question suitably modified.