Quotes About Insight

Writing is a way of sharing our humanity.

I don't like questions. They invent the answers. The real answers are discovered, before you even know what the question is.

William McIlvanney

He gave me a small, secretive smile, a smile that said he knew many things but couldn't share them all at once.

Start admiring the vastness of the forest and a tree will surely fall on you, bashing your skull for the crime of perspective.

door. She was not a writer herself, but she was a very good reader, passionate and eclectic in her tastes,

They paint what they see and we paint what we are watching.

There is a system of belief adequate to the complexity of experience

An optimist was someone who believed that however complicated or random or odd a stretching curve might seem, if we had enough insight then we could understand the simple guiding principle from which it actually came. The concept then spread from mathematics to mean anyone who believes that such an optimal path can open up in life.

The ability to perceive or think differently is more important than the knowledge gained.

Thus, in scientific research, a great deal of our thinking is in terms of theories. The word 'theory' derives from the Greek 'theoria', which has the same root as 'theatre', in a word meaning 'to view' or 'to make a spectacle'. Thus, it might be said that a theory is primarily a form of insight, i.e. a way of looking at the world, and not a form of knowledge of how the world is.

Clarity of perception and thought evidently requires that we be generally aware of how our experience is shaped by the insight (clear or confused) provided by the theories that are implicit or explicit in our general ways of thinking.

we merely say that man is continually developing new forms of insight, which are clear up to a point and then tend to become unclear. In this activity, there is evidently no reason to suppose that there is or will be a final form of insight (corresponding to absolute truth)

The universe speaks if you will learn to listen.

I feel as though I am swimming in an ocean of knowledge with but a teaspoon to consume it.

Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming

The moment you know you know you know.

knowing nothing can get you humiliated and knowing a little bit can get you killed, but knowing all of it will bring you power.

He [Huxley] once explained that his aim as a novelist was 'to arrive, technically, at a perfect fusion of the novel and the essay', arguing that the novel should be like a holdall, bursting with opinion and arresting ideas.

Creative people see Prometheus in a mirror, never Pandora.

We aren't a curse upon the world. We are her new eyes. Her brain, testes, ovaries . . . her ambition and her heart. Her voice. So sing. (556)

The species greatest harvest ? words.

News is something worth knowing that you didn't know already. (by an "earnest young woman" in his journalism class)

Our own filters and biases cloud our abilities to understand and to communicate effectively. It