Quotes About Insight

If you think that," said Bean, "you're an idiot." "Actually, I do think that, and I'm not an idiot.

Everything possible to be believed is an image of truth.

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. Qing-jao

I would follow such beauty, said something inside Ender. I would see as those eyes see.

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

From you I can learn things that nobody knows.

I want to understand everything, said Miro. I want to know everything and put it all together to see what it means. Excellent project, she said. It will look very good on your résumé.

Orson Scott Card

He had long since learned that when something unusual was going on, something that was part of someone else's plan and not his own, he would find out more information by waiting than by asking. Adults almost always lost their patience before Ender did.

Si sabes lo que es la locura, tal vez no caigas en ella.

La semilla de la duda estaba ahí, y permaneció, y de vez en cuando echaba una pequeña raíz. Esa semilla que crecía lo cambió todo. Hizo que Ender prestara más atención a lo que la gente quería decir, no a lo que decía. Le hizo más sabio.

Peregrinos viajeros hacia el altar de la inteligencia

Only a wise man could see my people so clearly in so short a time. Only a ruthless one would say it all out loud. Your virtue and your flaw – we need them both.

Oh," said Wheaton. "Oh, I see. Yes, that does bring mathematics into it.

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.

How could she have missed it? It was her knack, to see what people intended, what they were about to do. Yet she saw no further than his smile the first time they met, saw nothing but his genuine love and sympathy and concern for her. How could her knack have failed her?

He always knew the answer, even when she thought he wasn't paying attention.

Los sabios no son sabios porque no cometan errores. Son sabios porque corrigen sus errores en cuanto los reconocen.

Nobody knows more than can be learned in a single lifetime

Yet even the most hackneyed, shopworn science fiction or fantasy tale will feel startling and fresh to a naive reader who doesn't know the milieu is just like the one used in a thousand other stories.

with than the person who actually lived.

I know you don't know. I know what you know, and I know what you don't know. I even know what you don't know that you don't know.

Science fiction is not about the future. Like all other fiction, it is about the present. It simply uses different techniques to show us who we are, who we might be, and whom we ought to become.

Sometimes the government is the last to know.