Quotes About Insight

The old are not really smarter than the young, in terms of sheer brainpower. It is just that we have already made the kinds of mistakes that the young are about to make, and we have already suffered the consequences that the young are going to suffer if they disregard the record of the past.

Intellect—even intellect that reaches the level of genius—is not the same as wisdom.

As Will Rogers said, everybody is ignorant, but just about different things.

Only the dead know Brooklyn.

An outsider may wonder how deep a specialist must dig his hole before he realizes that he has lost sight of the horizon...

The only sin in the world is ignorance.

It will be enough for me, however, if these words of mine are judged useful by those who want to understand clearly the events which happened in the past and which (human nature being what it is) will, at some time or other and in much the same ways, be repeated in the future. My work is not a piece of writing designed to meet the taste of an immediate public, but was done to last for ever.

Anyone who maintains that we have nothing useful to learn from listening to speeches either lacks sense or has a secret agenda at stake. - Diodotus

History is philosophy teaching from examples.

Translated by Richard Crawley

I'm not sure what the moral is here...I really just wanted to tell that story.

The word "see" is often used as a direct synonym for "understand"—"I see what you mean." Yet sometimes we see but we don't understand; worse, we see, then "understand" something that isn't true at all. Done well, a picture of data is worth the proverbial thousand words.

we should ask who is missing from the data we're being shown, and whether our conclusions might differ if they were included.

He moved instead to an investment strategy that required no great macroeconomic insight. Instead, he explained, "As time goes on, I get more and more convinced that the right method in investment is to put fairly large sums into enterprises which one thinks one knows something about and in the management of which one thoroughly believes.

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If we want to make the world add up, we need to ask questions -- open-minded, genuine questions. And once we start asking them, we may find it is delightfully difficult to stop.

But we can and should remember to ask who or what might be missing from the data we're being told about.

When your afraid,reallyafraid, you see things you never saw before, you pay attention to the world.

Proximity to death brings with it a corresponding proximity to life.

That's what fiction is for. It's for getting at the truth when the truth isn't sufficient for the truth.

What made him shift each boot from one step to the next one down, and then the other boot to the one below that, was the thought of being able to read books. He had of course seen the things many times, and had seen people peer into pages and then raise their heads knowing things they hadn't known before.

knowledge is better than wonder

I've never met—have you?—a truly sophisticated man. World-weary and discreet—of course. But never sophisticated.

Learn about art, Captain," Thrawn said, his voice almost dreamy. "When you understand a species' art, you understand that species.