Quotes About Insight

Einstein once said, "but intuition is nothing but the outcome of earlier intellectual experience.

All of the other muscles he studied acted by pulling rather than pushing a body part, but the tongue seemed to be an exception. This was true in humans and in other animals. The most notable example is the tongue of the woodpecker. Nobody had drawn or fully written about it before, but Leonardo with his acute ability to observe objects in motion knew that there was something to be learned from it.

Some people say, "Give the customers what they want." But that's not my approach. Our job is to figure out what they're going to want before they do. I think Henry Ford once said, "If I'd asked customers what they wanted, they would have told me, 'A faster horse!' " People don't know what they want until you show it to them. That's why I never rely on

He who can go to the fountain does not go to the water-jar.

Study of light hitting a head.

Laurene Powell, said bluntly, "If you're ever going to do a book on Steve, you'd better do it now." He had just taken a second

asked Jobs why he wanted me to be the one to write his biography. "I think you're good at getting people to talk," he replied.

There should be an honored place in history for statesmen whose ideas turned out to be right.

Every part will be drawn, using all means of demonstrations, from three different points of view; for when you have seen a limb from the front, with any muscles, sinews, or veins which take their rise from the opposite side, the same limb will be shown to you in a side view or from behind, exactly as if you had that same limb in your hand and were turning it from side to side until you had acquired a full comprehension of all you wished to know.

I think Henry Ford once said, "If I'd asked customers what they wanted, they would have told me, 'A faster horse!'" People don't know what they want until you show it to them. That's why I never rely on market research. Our task is to read things that are not yet on the page.

Asked if he wanted to do market research, he said, "No, because customers don't know what they want until we've shown them.

His curiosity was aided by the sharpness of his eye, which focused on things that the rest of us glance over.

For Franklin, it was an insight into human foibles rather than evil. "He wished to please everybody," Franklin later said of Keith, "and having little to give, he gave expectations.

Just as inertial mass and gravitational mass are equivalent, so too there is an equivalence, he realized, between all inertial effects, such as resistance to acceleration, and gravitational effects, such as weight. His insight was that they are both manifestations of the same structure, which we now sometimes call the inertio-gravitational field.

insight, the user is never wrong, led to this idea that we could produce a search engine that was better.

Einstein's goal as he pursued his general theory of relativity was to find the mathematical equations describing two complementary processes: 1. How a gravitational field acts on matter, telling it how to move. 2. And in turn, how matter generates gravitational fields in spacetime, telling it how to curve. His head-snapping insight was that gravity could be defined as the curvature of spacetime, and thus it could be represented by a metric tensor. For more than three years he

went out and grabbed Jobs's lawyer, Larry Sonsini, and asked what he thought Jobs wanted. "Beats me," Sonsini said. So Amelio went back behind closed doors with Jobs and gave it one more try. "Steve, what's on your mind? What are you feeling? Please

Detrás de las cosas tenía que haber algo profundamente oculto.

Todo conocimiento de la realidad parte de la experiencia y acaba en ella.

la intuición no es más que el resultado de una experiencia intelectual anterior.»

There's a time to wink as well as to see 

we others who thirst for reason want to look our experiences as straight in the eye as if they represented a scientific experiment

Indeed, it is worth asking whether this is not a feature that is more often found than not in the greatest books. They do not mainly see to add to our knowledge: they do not disdain shocking us because what they most want to do is change us.

Indeed, it is worth asking whether this is not a feature that is more often found than not in the greatest books. They do not mainly seek to add to our knowledge: they do not disdain shocking us because what they most want to do is change us."