Quotes About Insight

Admiration is the emotion furthest from understanding. ~Sosuke Aizen

The fundamental insight of SRT is, simply put, that human labor is at the heart of creating or reproducing society as a whole. The notion of labor is conceived here in the original sense in which Karl Marx meant it, as "the first premise of all human history

Not by age but by character is wisdom acquired.

The evil that we know is best.

Every place is a goldmine. You have only to give yourself time, sit in a teahouse watching the passers-by, stand in a corner of the market, go for a haircut. You pick up a thread – a word, a meeting, a friend of a friend of someone you have just met – and soon the most insipid, most insignificant place becomes a mirror of the world, a window on life, a theatre of humanity.

Perché bisogna conoscere per poter trovare.

Moi, je voulais comprendre la guerre. Bien sûr, je voulais aussi la voir car je voulais la décrire, mais je me suis rendue compte que ceux qui me tiraient dessus depuis une rangée de palmiers, moi qui m'étais jeté la tête la première dans un fossé pour m'abriter, ces hommes étaient aussitôt devenus mes "ennemies". Mais étaient-ils mes "ennemis" ? Non. Si j'avais continué comme ça tout au long de la guerre, je ne l'aurais jamais comprise. (p. 120)

Il passato è un'indispensabile guida per chi vuol visitare il presente o immaginarsi il futuro. In tutti i miei viaggi mi porto sempre dietro i libri di qualcuno che ha percorso quella strada prima di me. Non solo mi fanno compagnia, ma me ne servo come termine di paragone, come misura di quello che vedo.

Il passato è un'indispensabile guida per chi vuol visitare il presente o immaginarsi il futuro.

Ho l'impressione che più informazioni abbiamo, più siamo ignoranti.

Some folks are wise and some are otherwise.

Intelligence is power; it is the flame behind the spark of intrigue

Baseball statistics are like a girl in a bikini. They show a lot, but not everything.

Some people are lucky enough to stumble across the right path straight away; most of us only discover what the right one is by going down the wrong one first.

You'd be surprised what a guy can learn by staying quiet

Thomas Kuhn, who once said that he came to realize that he did not understand a thinker until he could see the world through that thinker's eyes.

The job of the artist is not to resolve or beautify, but to hold complexities, to see and make clear.

To come to know your enemy, first you must become his friend.

On n'a rien trouvé, on n'a rien inventé. Nous ne pouvons rien savoir sinon que nous ne savons rien. C'est là le degré suprême de la sagesse humaine. (Guerre et Paix, livre deuxième, 2ième partie, ch. I)

Talent is the capacity to direct concentrated attention upon the subject: "the gift of seeing what others have not seen.

Fiction is about feeling, which is to say that short stories are about all of us.

Not everybody knows that looking at people in 'a funny way' is the commonest cause of sudden murder. I happen to know that because I read a Home Office brochure once.

I wanted to see what was going on in the world. I sometimes think I overwished.

Evil can be a teacher, if you look at the wisdom of its negative power.