Quotes About Insight

Angels just see it all at once; they see all the individual applications of the general principle in the general principle

Peter Kreeft

Some philosophers

See C. S. Lewis' essay "Meditation in a Toolshed" for this crucial distinction.) The

Peter Kreeft

wisdom, which is the habit of distinguishing appearance from reality.)

U svakom podru?ju života, tajna je originalnosti prestati pokušavati biti originalan i re?i istinu onako kako je vidiš.

Markets look a lot less efficient from the banks of the Hudson than from the banks of the Charles.

Before we can progress in providing answers . . . we have to repent of our questions.

Whoa, don't assume, dude, Marco said. My mom always said, when you assume you make an ass of u and me --

Actually Wall Street thinks just as the Greeks did. The early Greeks used to sit around for days and debate how many teeth a horse has. They thought they could figure it out by just sitting there, instead of checking the horse. A lot of investors sit around and debate whether a stock is going up, as if the financial muse will give them the answer, instead of checking the company.

and magazines and listen to the same economists.

Then, if you bring a certain kind of open, moment-to-moment, nonjudgmental awareness to what you're attending to, you'll begin to develop a more penetrative awareness that sees beyond the surface of what's going on in your field of awareness. This is mindfulness. Mindfulness makes it possible to see connections that may not have been visible before. But seeing these connections doesn't happen as a result of trying—it simply comes out of the stillness.

Until you do the inner work of learning how to see with "your eyes and your heart open," as Kabat-Zinn puts it, deep problems will persist.

If one member of a team sees a problem more systemically than others, that person's insight will get reliably discounted—if for no other reason than the intrinsic biases toward linear views in our normal everyday language.

The more you learn, the more acutely aware you become of your ignorance

As the hand held before the eye conceals the greatest mountain, so the little earthly life hides from the glance the enormous lights and mysteries of which the world is full, and he who can draw it away from before his eyes, as one draws away a hand, beholds the great shining of the inner worlds. RABBI NACHMANN OF BRATZLAV

You truly see by not trying to see.

For me, all stories are fiction. The only question is: Does it rattle the soul or not?

Shakespeare can show us what we are like at moments when we cannot see ourselves.

Unlike most CEOs, when trying something new, Jeff Bezos and his senior team (known as the S Team) don't try to develop elaborate financial projections or return on investment calculations. "You can't put into a spreadsheet how people are going to behave around a new product," Bezos will say.

The best insights about problems to be addressed often come from the worm's-eye view.

Sometimes, it seems like sighted people can hardly see anything.

Every map intends not simply to serve us but to influence us.