Quotes About Insight

A fool judges people by the presents they give him.

Climb mountains to see lowlands.

Listen to all, plucking a feather from every passing goose, but, follow no one absolutely.

The beginning of wisdom is calling things by their right names.

The man who does not learn is dark, like one walking in the night.

Deep doubts… deep wisdom; small doubts… little wisdom."

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The eye is not harmed by sleep.

The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.

Nobody can teach me who I am. You can describe parts of me, but who I am - and what I need - is something I have to find out myself.

In Sternin's judgment, all of this analysis was "TBU"—true but useless.

In highly successful change efforts, people find ways to help others see the problems or solutions in ways that influence emotions, not just thought.

How do you build peaks? You create a positive moment with elements of elevation, insight, pride, and/or connection.

INSIGHT: Defining moments rewire our understanding of ourselves or the world. In a few seconds or minutes, we realize something that might influence our lives for decades: Now is the time for me to start this business.

Some powerful defining moments contain all four elements. Think of YES Prep's Senior Signing Day: the ELEVATION of students having their moment onstage, the INSIGHT of a sixth grader thinking That could be me, the PRIDE of being accepted to college, and the CONNECTION of sharing the day with an arena full of thousands of supportive people. (See the footnote for a mnemonic to remember this framework for defining moments.)

Good metaphors are "generative."13 The psychologist Donald Schon introduced this term to describe metaphors that generate "new perceptions, explanations, and inventions." Many

Finding bright spots, then, solves many different problems at once. That's no surprise; successful change efforts involve connecting all three parts of the framework: Rider, Elephant, and Path.

Simple ideas: short sentences (compact) drawn from long experience

Stories are like flight simulators for the brain.

To be clear, it's not so much that you're a brilliant predictor; it's that he's a lousy self-evaluator. We're all lousy self-evaluators.

Self-understanding comes slowly. One of the few ways to accelerate it—to experience more crystallizing moments—is to stretch for insight.

But let's not confuse memorability with wisdom.

Once we know something, we find it hard to imagine what it was like not to know it.

Lots of us have expertise in particular areas. Becoming an expert in something means that we become more and more fascinated by nuance and complexity. That's when the Curse of Knowledge kicks in, and we start to forget what it's like not to know what we know