Quotes About Insight

A word to the wise ain't necessary, it is the stupid ones who need all the advice. BILL COSBY

Any fool can find answers. People who ask new questions, they are the geniuses

I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.

The only defense against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.

No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.

There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.

To prejudge other men's notions before we have looked into them is not to show their darkness but to put out our own eyes.

Horizontal vision allows someone to assimilate and weave together seemingly unconnected bits of information. It allows an investigator to see what others do not see, and to make leaps of connectivity and creativity.

Man seeks to form for himself, in whatever manner is suitable for him, a simplified and lucid image of the world, and so to overcome the world of experience by striving to replace it to some extent by this image.

Horizontal vision allows someone to assimilate and weave together seemingly unconnected bits of information. It allows an investigator to see what others do not see, and to make leaps of connectivity and creativity. Probing vertically, going deeper and deeper into something, creates new information. Sometimes what one finds will shine brilliantly enough to illuminate the whole world.

good judgment may require the ability to listen carefully to feedback from the body.

was not a coincidence that the two men who had the greatest impact on the shape of today's personal computer were among the earliest to fully comprehend the impact of the exponential scaling of microelectronic circuits.

Mike Brand had counseled his brother not to focus on selecting individual courses but rather to find the best professors. One of those he recommended was a charismatic professor of religion, Frederic Spiegelberg.

A leader is one who sees more than others see, who sees farther than others see, and who sees before others do. (Leroy Eims)

The future belongs to those who see possibilities before they become obvious. —John Sculley Former CEO of Pepsi and Apple Computer

For nonfiction projects, ideas are everywhere. They just go by in a ceaseless stream.

Ideas are where you find them

If you have to ask that question, you wouldn't understand the answer.

They who have put out the people's eyes reproach them of their blindness.

Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.

Oh how our neighbour lifts his nose, To tell what every schoolboy knows.

All readers are good readers, when they have the right book.

Education, properly understood, is that which teaches discernment.

Always to see the general in the particular is the very foundation of genius.