Quotes About Insight

we are simply not wise enough to be trusted with knowledge.

One needs to be intelligent in recognizing the favorable outcome and knowing what to discard.

The strength of the computer entrepreneur Steve Jobs was precisely in distrusting market research and focus groups—those based on asking people what they want—and following his own imagination. His modus was that people don't know what they want until you provide them with it.

There are traps built into any kind of knowledge gained from observation

There are many things without words, matters that we know and can act on but cannot describe direcly, cannot capture in human language or within the narrow human concepts that are available to us.

Significant signals have a way to reach you.

to how deep the author wants to go into a topic

and news shared with millions gives you no real advantage.

Nunca pergunte às pessoas o que elas querem, ou para onde querem ir, ou para onde pensam que deveriam ir, ou, pior ainda, o que elas pensam que desejarão amanhã. A força do empreendedor do ramo da computação Steve Jobs estava, precisamente, em desconfiar das pesquisas de mercado e dos grupos de foco — aqueles com o objetivo de perguntar às pessoas o que elas querem — e seguir sua própria imaginação.

this was his most significant insight, but it remains his least known.

his conversation becomes mere chitchat around the point, never getting to the central idea.

I started to see the consequences of the idea.

And of course you learn from the errors of others. You may never know what type of person someone is unless they are given opportunities to violate moral or ethical codes.

to show people how lacking in clarity they were in their thoughts, how little they knew about the concepts they used routinely

The ancients knew very well that the only way to understand events was to cause them.

in Tony's case, free time was the result of productive insights.

They found it difficult to accept that their grasp was a little short. But

an even smaller handful managed to foresee the full extent of the damage.

Normalmente, cuando decimos que alguien sabe escuchar es que tiene una indiferencia muy lograda.

You are taking the joy of ignorance out of the things we don't understand.

knowledge is reached (mostly) by removing junk from people's heads.

Los hallazgos de Popper y de Poincaré limitan nuestra capacidad para ver en el futuro, haciendo de éste un reflejo muy complicado del pasado, si es que existe tal reflejo.

My point is that wisdom in decision making is vastly more important—not just practically, but philosophically—than knowledge.

to understand the future to the point of being able to predict it, you need to incorporate elements from this future itself.