Quotes About Insight

What you know is a club for yourself, and what you don't know is a meat-ax for the other fellow.

What I had come to love about book club (besides the fabulous desserts and free liquor) was how in hearing so many opinions about the same book, your own opinion expanded, as if you'd read the book several times instead of just once.

Where do you find your faith in me, Catherine?" "From coming to know you.

How long do you think it will take her to figure out who you are?" "She is blind." "Then that makes two of you." Alejandro

Whoever reaches into a rosebush may seize a handful of flowers; but no matter how many one holds, it's only a small portion of the whole. Nevertheless, a handful is enough to experience the nature of the flowers. Only if we refuse to reach into the bush, because we can't possibly seize all the flowers at once, or if we spread out our handful of roses as if it were the whole of the bush itself -- only then does it bloom apart from us, unknown to us, and we are left alone.

I was the only student she'd taught who'd actually known any deaf people. Most of the students in my courses were there because they'd seen a movie or read a Helen Keller book.

This work was throwing me into the intimate functioning of people's lives.

When I work a game as an analyst, all I do is look at the game like a coach.

How can anybody learn anything from an artwork when the piece of art only reflects the vanity of the artist and not reality?

When you think the night has seen your mind, That inside you're twisted and unkind, Let me stand to show that you are blind. Please put down you hands 'cause I see you. I'll be you mirror, reflect what you are. I'll Be Your Mirror

Knowledge counts but common sense matters.

Lewis closes his book, The Abolition of Man, with these prophetic words: "You cannot go on 'explaining away' for ever: you will find that you have explained explanation itself away. . . . If you see through everything, then everything is transparent.  But a wholly transparent world is an invisible world.  To see through all things is the same as not to see." 

To philosophise with open eyes is to philosophise in the dark. Only the blind can look straight at the sun.

They have understood of others' lives what they were capable of understanding. But even if it were like that, it would be otherwise.

Tout ce qui n'est pas moi est incompréhensible.

If you still have to ask, shame on you.

If you gotta ask, you'll never know.

Man, if you gotta ask you'll never know.

The older I get the more I realize that the only thing a teacher has to go on is that rare spark in a boy's eye. And when you see that, Brian, you're an ass if you worry where it comes from. Whether it's an ode of Horace or an Icelandic saga or something that goes bang in a laboratory.

System jest jak ogon prawdy, a prawda jest jak jaszczurka, zostawia swój ogon w twoich r?kach i bierze nogi za pas, wiedz?c, ?e nowy ogon uro?nie jej w mgnieniu oka". Tak to wyrazi? Iwan Sergiejewicz Turgieniew, znakomity pisarz rosyjski. A tak to przedstawi? Chris: Czasami rzeczywisto?? bywa z?udna. A tak Rashomon Kurosawy: "je?li chodzi o rzeczywisto??, to tak naprawd? ona nie istnieje".

Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.

The logic of words should yield to the logic of realities.

If we would guide by the light of reason, we must let our minds be bold.

Collecting intelligence information is like trying to drink water out of a fire hydrant. You know, in hindsight It's great. The problem is there's a million dots at the time.