Quotes About Insight

Don't judge me until you understand me. You can't understand me if you've already judged me.

You don't have to eat the entire turd to know that it's not a crab cake.

It [seed of doubt] made Ender listen to what people meant, instead of what they said. It made him wise.

it's often the ideas that sound most absurd and counterintuitive at first that later cause fundamental shifts in the way we see the world.

It's about me, or people wouldn't be so anxious to keep me from knowing about it. The absence of information is information. ~ Ender

Peter had even named it once, when he said that he could always see what other people hated most about themselves, and bully them, while Val could always see what other people liked best about themselves, and flatter them.

We know everything we knew that was worth knowing, that's a crucial distinction.

That was Ender's gift to us, to free us from the illusion that any one explanation will ever contain the final answer for all time, for all hearers. There is always, always more to learn.

It made Ender listen more carefully to what people meant, instead of what they said. It made him wise.

If only we could stand outside our lives and look at what we do, we might repair so many injuries before they're done.

He could just look at people and listen to them and suddenly he'd know things about them.

When you have wisdom that another person knows that he needs, you give it freely. But when the other person doesn't yet know that he needs your wisdom, you keep it to yourself. Food only looks good to a hungry man.

I know you know, and you know that I know that you know. It spirals on from there, so let's just assume the dot dot dot.

Rigg, said Father, you're so smart and so dumb at the same time that it almost takes my breath awway

See how ignorant you are? You don't even know why you need to know the things you don't know yet.

don't ever try to teach me about good and evil. I've been there, and you've seen nothing but the map.

He knew he could always be smart later, if that turned out to be a better strategy. But once you admitted to being smart, there was no going back.

As they say, a word to the wise is sufficient. And here I've gone and written five paragraphs.

One is never too old to be a student of the enemy.

Maybe knowing about craziness means you don't have to fall for it.

The secret is not to avoid learning useless knowledge. It's to make use of whatever knowledge you have.

All he had to do was watch the game and understand how things worked, and then he could use the system, and even excel.

They aren't having a mental conversation between people with different thought processes. All their thoughts are present, together, at once.

Ah,' said Speaker. 'There's so much that we don't understand. And so much that you don't understand. We should tell each other more.