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Quotes About Insight

The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he is one who asks the right questions.
~ Claude Levi-Strauss
The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions.
~ Claude Levi-Strauss
The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he's one who asks the right questions.
~ Claude Levi-Strauss
It's on the strength of observation and reflection that one finds a way. So we must dig and delve unceasingly.
~ Claude Monet
To see, we must forget the name of the things we are looking at
~ Claude Monet
Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe.
~ Claudia Black
Well sometimes things don't make sense right away, so you might as well put them aside and wait until they do" -Mom
~ Unknown
Con los años no es que se profundice lo peor de uno, sino que por fin sale a la luz.
~ Unknown
Así sucede con los grandes personajes de la literatura, siempre encontramos un punto, una arista, un gesto donde podemos ser ellos. O al menos podemos ponernos en su lugar.
~ Unknown
Lo sentí cercano, hay mucha gente que no es ciega y, de todos modos, no quiere ver. Quizá tomándoles la mano lo logren
~ Unknown
Sometimes you read something and a thought that was floating around in your veins organizes itself into the sentence that reflects it.
~ Claudia Rankine
Hey you — All our fevered history won't instill insight, won't turn a body conscious, won't make that look in the eyes say yes, though there is nothing to solve even as each moment is an answer.
~ Claudia Rankine
It was a lesson.
~ Claudia Rankine
it gave me a new appreciation for objective appraisal
~ Unknown
Often, simply knowing the answer is the largest hurdle to overcome when formulating a proof.
~ Unknown
A particular bear...sees a particular this
~ Unknown
The way in which mathematicians and physicists and historians talk is quite different, and what a physicist means by physical intuition and what a mathematician means by beauty or elegance are things worth thinking about.
~ Clifford Geertz
If we wanted home truths, we should have stayed at home.
~ Clifford Geertz
If you really want to know about the future, don't ask a technologist, a scientist, a physicist. No! Don't ask somebody who's writing code. No, if you want to know what society's going to be like in 20 years, ask a kindergarten teacher.
~ Clifford Stoll
Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not wisdom.
~ Clifford Stoll
Si realmente quieren saber sobre el futuro, no le pregunten a un técnico, a un científico o a un físico. ¡No! No le pregunten a quien escriba en código. No, si quieren saber cómo va a ser la sociedad en 20 años, pregúntenle a la maestra de un jardín de niños.
~ Clifford Stoll
Everything that ever was always will be and is always present to discover if you have the will to look beyond surface appearances.
~ Clifford Thurlow
People always want to move forward even when they are just sitting. They lean forward, look sideways, look backwards and even stand up to see what is ahead of them. Realizing they are actually facing a mirror in front of them.
~ Unknown
The essence of writing is enkindled by the heart and soul of the thinker.
~ Unknown