Quotes About Insight

I could see tall ideas standing up behind his eyes.

Is it possible to be wiser on the page than you are in life? I'm hoping so.

It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.

All writing is that structure of revelation. There's something you want to find out. If you know everything up front in the beginning, you really don't need to read further if there's nothing else to find out.

When you get old you begin to understand that no one talks unless someone listens, and no one knows nuthin' 'less somebody else can understand.

I seen it all," old Coydog used to say, "but that don't mean I seen everything.

as well as in our own thoughts—the way one realization will suddenly overwhelm everything else, to be, in turn, replaced by yet another.

Few people know how much you have to know in order to know how little you know.

by profession an observer of tones and gestures

They say that a lady's mind is always expressed in her postscript, so I would have you think that the most important part of your commission lies in what I have last said to you.

It is the pest of our profession that we seldom see the best side of human nature.

If you've been playing poker for half an hour and you still don't know who the patsy is, you're the patsy.

Forecasts may tell you a great deal about the forecaster; they tell you nothing about the future.

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

Diversification is protection against ignorance. It makes little sense if you know what you are doing.

But then it dawned on me that the opinion of someone who is always wrong has its own special utility to decision-makers.

It is better to be approximately right than precisely wrong.

Charlie's dictum: "All I want to know is where I'm going to die so I'll never go there.

Go to bed a little smarter each day.

It's good to learn from your mistakes. It's better to learn from other people's mistakes.

The key is having more information than the other guy – then analysing it right and using it rationally.

To be a futurist, in pursuit of improving reality, is not to have your face continually turned upstream, waiting for the future to come. To improve reality is to clearly see where you are, and then wonder how to make that better.

The point is, the only real tools we have are our eyes and our heads. It's not the act of seeing with our eyes alone; it's correctly comprehending what we see. Treating life as an autopsy.

This is always the writer's cunning plan – writing things down so that you can see them properly.