Quotes About Insight

It's always easy to be wise after the event.

Es heißt auch immer, dass der Verstand in Augenblicken höchster Gefahr am besten arbeitet und einem glasklare Einfälle schenkt. Aber das war bei mir ebenso wenig der Fall.

It's in dreams more than anywhere else that you get to know people best -- along with all their weaknesses and their secrets.

That's the trouble. It's really hard to understand if you haven't experienced it.

When I read Thirteen Days I was moved by it. It was just a great time for the world, in terms of looking back in history and seeing how we got ourselves into trouble and how we got ourselves out of trouble.

The stone is not what I say it is. It's what you see in it.

Aristotle observed more than 2,400 years ago, "There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.

Mõnikord võib mõistusevastane käitumine osutuda hoopiski ratsionaalseks.

A moment of consideration often prevents a thousand apologies

What it means" is ultimately not a matter of theory only but of practice, not a matter of sheer knowledge but of wisdom.

In an information-rich world, the wealth of information means a dearth of something else: a scarcity of whatever it is that information consumes. What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention." Simon's insight is often reduced to "In a world of abundance, the only scarcity is human attention." Our

Questioning is simply more powerful than answering.

The value of experience is rising.

We might subscribe to the marginalia feed from someone we respect, so we get not only their reading list but their marginalia—highlights, notes, questions, musings. The

Our most important thinking machines will not be machines that can think what we think faster, better, but those that think what we can't think.

The purpose of listening is not to reply, but to hear what is not being said.

Re-visioning the ordinary is what art, literature, and comedy do.You can elevate mundane details into magical wonders simply by noticing them.

Ironically, the best questions are not questions that lead to answers, because answers are on their way to becoming cheap and plentiful. A good question is worth a million good answers. A

Hindsight. It's like foresight without a future.

Everybody's got one killer story. It doesn't take talent to tell that story, it just takes experience.

You can spend your life looking for knowledge while all along it was right in front of you.

I wondered if that was kind of the purpose of art, maybe, to make you see things that you knew but couldn't say out loud.

People say that eyes are windows to the soul.

The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.